Re: Follow up about X clipboard

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 00:04, Alan wrote:
> > >It's not a complete solution, but it might just be "good enough".
> > 
> > I agree. It will solve the annoyances users have *right now*, which is 
> > also important. I think we've all figured out that a perfect solution is 
> > complex and will take a while to complete. I don't think there's 
> > anything wrong with coming up with a simpler 90% solution in the short 
> > term (and then eventually replacing it with the 100% solution).
> 
> Agreed 100% here, but isn't that what gclipd (or whatever it was called)
> tried to do, and then the author left the project not that long ago
> saying that he realized he couldn't solve the problem with a simple
> little app (or something like that)?

You mean "GNOME Clipboard Manager". It was far more than a clipboard
daemon, and far more than necessary. He wanted to keep a clipboard
history but found this too difficult.

Hongli's clipboard daemon is much simpler and therefore less
problematic.

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