Translators (Re: State of the X clipboard, and perhaps a solution)

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

Hi!

Well, I know this might be abit far out, but ...

How about implementing a translator framework, a bit like known 
from BeOS? Every application would provide modules to the 
system that allow its internal data representations to be 
transformed to other formats. These modules could be run 
independently from the apps, so that a module could be used 
to hold the clipboard content after an application is closed 
(realy closed!).

Such a framework would also allow much greater import/export 
capabilities. 


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Thorsten Wilms