Re: c&p from gnumeric

[Almer "S." Tigelaar <almer gnome org>]

On 19 Jun 2001 21:30:26 +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>  Of course it's technically possible (by writing additional code) to provide
> data in multiplie formats at the same time (text, html, latex or even rtf) so
> that smart apps will be able to paste in whatever format they think is richer.
> It's easily possible to do this using gtk, without any X calls.


Indeed, the problem is probably that we need to get the plugins to write
their data not to a file (which they all do now), but to
memory. This isn't overly hard but requires some modifications to the
plugins themselves and the plugin subsystem.

Almer S. Tigelaar