[PATCH] selection: send selection events to all connected clients

[Rob Bradford]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> > Alright. I'm not too familiar with toolkits, so could you explain why
> > toolkits need to access the selection at arbitrary times (specifically
> > while unfocused), instead of only as a response to direct user input
> > (which in all relevant cases assigns the focus first)?
> 
> What I mean is it breaks the api, the api provided by toolkits to
> access clipboard will not work at any time, a constraint that doesn't
> exist in any other systems.

We've "broken" toolkit APIs in other ways by design in Wayland - e.g. absolute
positioning. Design decisions that have been made in other display systems and
affected toolkit design shouldn't then automatically flow back to implement
Wayland design decisions.

Cheerio,

Rob