RE: Clipping Files

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

That's an implemetation detail.

This feature could still be implemeted but it 
will be harder in X than it was in the mac. Basically
the task of do ing theclipping will have to ge the
data and then but in the file. During pasting the app
serving the clipping file has to be around long enough
to complete the paste.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain [mailto:tigermilk@btinternet.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 4:19 PM
> To: Poletti, Don; Gnome List
> Subject: Re: Clipping Files
> 
> 
> > Basically anything you can select and copy/cut to
> > the clipboard can instead be draged and dropped
> > on the decktop. A clipping file is then created with this
> > selection. then it can be dropped onto any app and to
> > the app it looks like a regular paste.
> 
> This isn't how the X clipboard works.
> All that gets put on the Xclipboard is a note saying that 
> Application X currently has the selection
> and that it can supply data in formats A B C.
> No data ever goes to the clipboard.
> 
> (Or I'm probably talking crap)
> iain
>