Re: Building multiple backends on on same system

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
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> GdkSelection is a wrapper around the X11 selection functions. It's not used by Gtk, which has its own higher-level selection object which ties into GtkClipboard and GtkDnd... which is why almost nobody knows about GdkSelection any more. I only know about it only because I implemented GtkSelection for quartz last summer.
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> It probably should  be dropped completely, but if that's too radical, by all means banish it to the X11 backend.

That is not really true.

$ grep -l gdk_selection *.c
gtkdnd.c
gtkselection.c
gtktextbuffer.c