Re: Two ideas that could make people love GNOME even more

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Nils O. Sel�al wrote:
> Nice. Perhaps.
> Does it deal with most things mentioned at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2004-March/msg00048.html
> ?

No. The only thing my app does is keeping the clipboard content in 
memory. That email mentions 4 problems:
1. Data transfer: a while ago people discussed about the design of a new 
 clipboard. That discussion died and nothing had been written. I can 
only conclude that nobody really knows how to deal with the problem. 
People talked about scenarios like copying 200 MB of video data to 
clipboard, *and* keeping that in memory after the video editing app has 
exited, or something like that.
2. Clipboard owner exit: it is indeed impossible to know when the 
clipboard owner is about to exit. This must be implemented at the X level.
3. Clipboard format: this is an application problem. Fix the applications.
4. Clipboard ownership change: this is now possible with the XFIXES 
extension. GTK 2.6 has support for this, I think.