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

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:51:05AM +0200, Hongli Lai wrote:
> On Saturday 06 September 2003 13:14, Dalibor Petricevic wrote:
> > If I put 20MB in the clipboard that DOES NOT mean that either
> > application is broken or that I am doing something wrong. Copying image in
> > photoshop/gimp will most probably put MORE than 1MB to clipboard.
> > Now what?
> 
> I'm talking about apps that only copy text.

Its still very easy to generate large quantities of text in rich
format environments.  Gnumeric can render to text in various forms
and offers that as a target.  64k rows adds up fast.