Re: Gnome Office summary from the Gnome Summit.

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Right - which is why the both are not really of practicly any help if you
are talking about cut/paste interop between office suites.

On 26 Jul 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes:
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt
> > 
> > Not even close to interesting if you are talking about cut and paste of
> > structured data. Text in a text editor is structred data as various
> > attributes (at the minimum, about font, text styles, etc) apply to
> > it. 
> 
> That document has nothing to do with data format. The data format is
> orthogonal to the name of the clipboard atom.
> 
> > > http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/
> > > 
> > 
> > could help if say both parties saved it as a MS format temporary (or
> > something similar) and then drag'n'drop-ed that.
> 
> Ditto, DND spec says nothing about the data format.
> 
> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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