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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:35:01AM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote: 
> The core of my problem with the Klipper approach is that it seems
> over eager.  Why serialize and de-serialize a potentially large
> amount of data, in several formats unless you really need to.  As
> long as the application continues to run it is the best repository
> of the information.  My understanding of the problem being addressed
> is that we want to have clipboard content last even when an
> application exits.  In that situation could we not transfer the
> content only on exit ?

Right, that's what Owen has always wanted to do. I don't think it gets
you out of the core problem though (it's really still broken if
pasting before exit and pasting after exit gives different results; so
you really still want to preserve all possible formats when the
clipboard manager takes over). So it seems to me like "take over only
at exit" is more of an optimization than a solution.

Havoc