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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 12:42 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> > They in the real world are going to have to deal with apps that hang due
> > to network failures, NFS going on holiday and all the other realities.
> > Clipboards have to be robust to some degree.,
>
> Agreed. This would have to be implemented safely. For example... when a
> program enters "sleeping waiting for clipboard" state, it should have
> closed all open files, and essentially for all intensive purposes shut
> down completely. The only remaining data that should be active in the
> program is the copied data and the code to transform it.

...and the X connection, and the X widgets which are needed for copy/paste to work

you should know that what you are asking of applications is a non-trivial thing. Try implementing your ideas in a few of the more complex applications and I'm sure you'll give up and agree that your idea is a no-can-do.

Jeff