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

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 06/09/03 20:18, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> I agree that the clipboard daemon is not at fault for mem usage here.
>
> However, I thought the whole point of the exercise is to get rid of the
> horribly outdated clipboard model that can only transfer text?
>  
The X selection model has never been limited to text.  The owner of the 
selection advertises a number of targets (ie. formats), and the pasting 
application requests the target.  The data is then transfered in that 
format.  If no client ever pastes, no data ever gets transfered.

This way, an app can advertise the selection in multiple formats without 
any penalty.  If every time an app advertised clipboard data, it would 
be requested in every advertised format, then this wouldn't be the case.

James.

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