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

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 06/09/03 19:19, Hongli Lai wrote:

> I am aware of all this. But I don't see any other easy way to prevent the
>
> clipboard content from getting lost.
> The other alternative is make applications transfer data to the daemon before 
> they exit, but this requires modification in all applications (or at least 
> the toolkits; depending on the situation). That's way too much work.
>
> With this daemon, the X clipboard will work very similar to the Win32 
> clipboard. Yes, memory is wasted, but the content doesn't get lost. And so 
> far, I have seen a lot more people complaining about the X clipboard 
> (hundreds) than the Win32 clipboard (nobody; ever heard a user critisize the 
> Win32 clipboard? I haven't).
>  
Looking at modern win32 applications, I would guess that they work in a 
manner closer to the X selection mechanism, with support for transfering 
the selection to another daemon on exit.

If I am using Microsoft Word, I can paste data copied from word in a 
number of formats, including plain text, html and full word format (ie. 
it supports content negotiation).  Further more, if I copy a large 
amount of text and exit Word, it will pop up a dialog asking if I want 
the data to remain available to other apps after exit.

If Word wasn't involved in the "paste" process, I can't see any reason 
why it would need to ask this question on exit.

If word wasn't involved, then I would expect that paste would work 
equally well before/after exit and use the same amount of memory.  If 
this was the case, then there wouldn't be much reason to ask the question.

James.

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