Re: A desktop framework/daemon

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> Applications (on the network and/or the localhost) can then ask the
> daemon to get a layer of a clipboard in the history (A clipboard can
> have different layers, or targets. For example the HTML view of such a
> clipboard, or the TEXT view, the PNG view or whatever format the
> application desires). Because such clipboards can be binary the content
> will be or UUEncoded or served as a HTTP url 

Please make it talk via X properties, otherwise its yet another network
mess we don't need and another "doesnt work through firewalls" we don't 
want to deal with.