[Usability]Re: clipboard manager comments

[djcovey softhome net]

Maciej Stachowiak writes: 

> On 09Oct2002 04:13PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi, 
> >
> > I'm investigating better clipboard support for GNOME 2.2 or Red Hat
> > Linux next-version, and the first thing I looked at was
> > GNOME clipboard manager at http://gcm.sourceforge.net/. 
> >
> > Here are the comments I had on it. The biggest point I think is to
> > hide some of the X machinery (selections, targets) from the user. 
> >
> > It might be nice if someone could post screenshots from similar apps
> > on Mac and Windows and KDE and so on.
>
> The Mac doesn't come with any kind of program for viewing the
> clipboard contents, and no one seems to particularly want one. The
> main things that make cut and paste work better on the Mac are: 
>
> 1) If you copy something and quit the app you copied from, the data
> does not get lost. 
>
> 2) Cut and paste of data types besides plain text (rich text, images,
> etc) actually works and is usable between multiple apps.
>  
> These are the important problems to solve. On the other hand, having a
> program to view and mess with the clipboard contents is probably more
> confusing than helpful. To me it seems about as helpful as a "Drag and
> Drop Manager" GUI program would be.

I tend to agree somewhat.  I just cant see the utility of a clipboard 
manager, it should just work without such a 'tool'.