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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:56:06PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Well, I'm completely clueless as far as this goes. I'm strictly speaking
> from a user's POV and in this case I'm not at all interested in the
> underlying tech. I love left-click copying and middle-click pasting of
> text in X. I miss it a lot in Win. But the fact that, regardless of the
> underlying mechanism supporting it, everything else in the X clipboard
> (or the apps# use of it, doesn't matter to the user) sucks hard in the
> user experience compared to what I'm used to in win annoys me. And I'm
> not even an X basher at all


Argh, middle click paste is not the clipboard!!!!!!!

http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt

We need to submit this fact to Slashdot or something.

Havoc