Re: cut-and-paste in gnome-terminal

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

George Kraft wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:55 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
>  
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> > There are numerous applications in which selectable text is difficult or 
> > impossible to select via the keyboard.  The text APIs give us a reliable 
> > way of both selecting the text (when that's what's necessary) and 
> > copying the text (when what we really want is cut-and-paste), so I think 
> > having orca and gnopernicus implement their own text "clipboard" would 
> > be a very powerful feature.
> >    
>
> Would it make sense to model an AtkClipboard set of routines modeled
> after the Motif clipboard?  Then gnopernicus, orca, or any other AT can
> read the clipboard which was set by an application via Atk.
>  
My initial reaction is 'no', for several reasons:

* it would require the apps to interact with this clipboard, which 
breaks the normal model for ATK (i.e. apps can go about their normal 
business without explicitly anticipating the ATs requests)
* the AT is the user-agent which knows when to interact with the 
clipboard, and what to put into it.
* the current AtkText API contains all of the required interfaces for 
implementing a text clipboard in the AT client.

As far as a multi-mimetype clipboard is concerned, that could be 
achieved with AtkStreamableContent/AccessibleStreamableContent, though 
there are few existing implementations of this API so far.

- Bill

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