Re: [Quartz] Gtk Selection

[Jon Cruz <jon joncruz org>]

On May 23, 2010, at 10:21 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> The structure of that part of Gdk follows very closely the X11 way of doing things, and Cocoa Foundation's way of handling selections and clipboards (which they call pasteboards) doesn't line up very well with it. It seems to me that it might work better to just make a gtkselection-quartz.c and implement everything directly, ignoring Gdk entirely, much as Richard did with gtkclipboard-quartz.c and gtkdnd-quartz.c. 
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> What do you all think?

I'd suggest looking over the win32 details also. It would be good if any changes would allow for better clipboard support in a manner that abstracts the differences in a way to share efforts cross-platform.