Re: [Patch] A clipboard daemon for gnome-settings-daemon

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 04:41, Hongli Lai wrote:
> A while ago there has been a discussion about integrating a clipboard daemon 
> in GNOME which keeps the content of the clipboard in memory, so that even if 
> the owner application exits the clipboard will not be lost.
> Here's a patch for gnome-settings-daemon (against most recent anonymous CVS) 
> which does exactly that. No configuration options - it's supposed to Just 
> Work(tm).
> I've tested this extensively for several weeks and it works fine (including QT 
> and Mozilla apps).
> This patch can also be applied against the latest stable release of 
> control-center.

This is going to seem like broken record, but...

Does this address any of the valid concerns with things like Klipper the
Jody Goldberg has raised elsewhere: content negotiation with the paste
target, enormous memory usage in some circumstances, etc?

The difficulty is that without solving those problems, this is not a
daemon that you can have turned on by default, since it essentially
breaks some applications (most of Jody's examples talk about Gnumeric
cutting and pasting, but there are similar things with XML documents
such as documentation editors, SVG editors, etc.).

Cheers,
Malcolm