Re: The Gnome Clipboard Manager

[Martin Sevior <msevior tauon ph unimelb EDU AU>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
>
>
> What applications could use libgcm :
>  - Applications like IDEs (devstudio, anjuta, gIDE) and texteditors
>  - PanelApplets
>  - Office applications
>
>  Example of Microsoft applications that have a Clipboard
>  Management tool : Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, Ms. Office
>  Both save clipboards on a shelve.
>
>
>
> Features list :
>
>
> Note:
> I know that it might be confusing but I am not the person who gave these
> animals names, "a target is a format" and "a clipboard is a selection"
> in the following text :
>
>
>     * Storing your clipboards and all their available formats. A.k.a the
>       collecting of clipboards.
>
>           o A clipboard (a.k.a. a selection) can have multiple formats
>           (a.k.a targets) o GNOME Clipboard Manager will store all your
>           previous clipboards and formats so that you can go back to a
>           previously saved clipboard o A format can be
>
>                 + Html : which are the HTML-tags of a HTML selection
>                 when you copypaste some stuff in your browser + Image
>                 data : If you select a portion of an image and use the
>                 "Copy"- or "Cut"-feature in for example OpenOffice.org
>
>                 + Normal text :
>                 a.k.a. COMPOUND_TEXT which is the most common format of
>                 clipboards
>
>                 + Some other format used by a specific
>                 application that contains information about the data.
>                 For example the clipboards of OpenOffice.org contain
>                 gzipped formats which host XML-files that define the
>                 layout and information that is to be copypasted to for
>                 example another OpenOffice.org screen.
>

HI Philip,
	This is a great feature for the Gnome platform. In addition to the
features you've listed here there should also be RTF targets. Both AbiWord
and Cross Over Office support cutting and pasting Rich Text Format text.

I'll try to find time to implement RTF targets. The Code Weaver guys
have promised to fully expose RTF from MS Office to the X-clipboard.

(One advantage of actually paying for a product is that you get to file
bugs and people fix them for you :-)

AbiWord supports or will support most these text formats so we might able
to reuse it to do conversions from whatever <-> whatever using the
abiword import/export filters.

Cheers

Martin


>           o Once collected, a clipboard becomes an Item for GNOME
>           Clipboard Manager o Making a clipboardring by setting the
>           max. amount of collected items. Older items will then
>           automatically be deleted from the list of collected items.
>
>           o The autocollecting of new items
>
>     * Saving and loading collected clipboards (Items) to
>       XML-formatted files.
>
>           o The data of the items will be written to the files in
>           UUEncoded data to make sure that we don't write binary data in
>           an UTF-8 orientated fileformat like XML is o Saving multiple
>           items in one file is, of course, possible
>
>     * Editing and viewing some supported formats in a clipboard
>
>           o The editing of the COMPOUND_TEXT or normal text target is
>           possible o The editing (and previewing in a GtkHtml widget) of
>           the text/html target is possible
>
>     * Manipulating of formats
>
>           o Blocking specific formats that are too large to store into
>           memory. E.g. Blocking large binary format-types
>
>           o Copying a specified format-type to another format-type o The
>           possibility to write a plugin for GNOME Clipboard Manager that
>           does the converting of the format-data while copying it to
>           another format-type
>
>     * Some advanced UserInterface options
>
>           o The UserInterface is, by default, hidden. So GNOME Clipboard
>           Manager is, by default, a clipboard collecting daemon. You can
>           make it show its UserInterface by using a small external tool
>           or by using the GNOME Clipboard Manager Applet. o Hiding all
>           UserInterface objects
>
>           o Making the scrollbar follow while adding new items o
>           Autoselect most new collected item
>
>           o Unselect-all after collecting a new item
>
>     * Support for the following selectiontypes
>
>           o The CLIPBOARD-selection : Used when using CTRL+C and CTRL+V
>           and the "Copy"- and "Paste"-features in the menus of most
>           applications o The PRIMARY selection : The text that is
>           selected in your session o The SECONDARY selection : The text
>           that was selected the last time in your session o A CUSTOM
>           atom : For those who know what they are doing
>
>     * A PanelApplet
>
>           o A PanelApplet for GNOME Clipboard Manager that can make
>           GNOME Clipboard Manager perform some specific tasks.
>
>     * A library for your own applications to control GNOME Clipboard
>       Manager
>
>           o GNOME Clipboard Manager comes with libgcm which is a library
>           that enables your application(s) to control and make use of
>           GNOME Clipboard Managers features.
>
>     * The hosting of plugins
>           o You can write plugins for GNOME Clipboard Manager in a same
>           fashion as you can with applications like mediaplayers (like
>           xmms).
>
>
>
> Availability
>
>
> You can download the latest release (which has all the listed features)
> here :
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gcm/gcm-2.0.2.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gcm/gcmapplet-2.0.2.tar.gz?download
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gcm/libgcmtest-2.0.2.tar.gz?download
>
>
> You can get a more up-to-date version from CVS. Please note that a
> version from CVS is a development version and can contain more or less
> bugs than a release. It will definitely not contain less features unless
> a specific feature caused very strange problems that cannot be solved.
>
> - I suggest using the cvs for the people who are reading this list -
>
> export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous cvs gcm sf net:/cvsroot/gcm'
> cvs login
> cvs -z3 co -P gcm-2 libgcmtest gcmapplet
>
>
> More information
>
>
> You can get more information about GNOME Clipboard Manager from its
> website which is available here :
>
> http://gcm.sf.net
> http://gcm.sf.net/about_gcm.html
>
> You can get screenshots from GNOME Clipboard Manager here :
>
> http://gcm.sf.net/gcm_screens/
>
>
> Yes, I now hate myself for sending such a large E-mail to very busy
> people..
>
>
> --
> Philip van Hoof aka freax (http://www.freax.eu.org)
> irc: irc.openprojects.net mailto:me at freax dot org
> Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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