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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:06 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> > ...and the X connection, and the X widgets which are needed for
> > copy/paste to work
>
> Surely each application would have a copy buffer of it's own. For GTK
> widgets, it would be put into a GTK specific buffer... for more complex
> application specific types, it would be up to the application to
> implement the necessary callbacks to handle pasting and retrieving the
> data from existing sources. For example, in an audio editing program,
> the widget doesn't contain the audio data.
>
> > 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.
>
> I'd rather discuss it before I waste time on it.

if it ain't a practial solution, why waste time discussing it? :-)

Jeff