Re: Selections ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes: 
>         This has several advantages - such as not minding if applications
> are closed, being a single, simple text format pointer to arbitarily
> complex data. It appears then to implement some of the nice format
> negotiation stuff that X has, without the neccesity of having the end
> application available.
> 
>         Not suitable for Gtk+ though,
> 

It would be suitable for GTK, if it didn't have the huge disadvantage
of losing interoperability with all non-GNOME stuff. So this is a
challenge for the future.

Havoc