Re: Proposing clipboard-daemon for Gnome 2.10

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:33:34 -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> It's not fictional Andersca has been doing some work on it
>     http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/20041005.txt

Cool, I didn't know about that. Thanks!
 
> The problem with current clipboard managers is that there is no way
> to 'opt out'.  

Well, I meant that the clipboard manager itself would look at how much
data it was sucking up and if it went over some pre-defined limit it'd
abort the operation. IE the manager opts out, not the applications.

> Gnumeric hits this problem failrly hard because it
> supports so many export formats and it's data can easily get large.
>     eg
> 	it's common to move data around by cut-n-pasting entire
> 	columns.  Transforming N x 10,000 into
> 	    : gnumeric xml
> 	    : csv
> 	    : OOo xml
> 	    : html
> 	    ... (and there are lots of others)
> 	takes lots of memory, and time.
> 	
> The goal of the proposal is the only do that work when the
> application is exiting.

Yep, I'm not saying it's an easy problem to solve, just that until it is
solved correctly something is better than nothing ... still, looks like
Anders is on the case :)

thanks -mike