Rethinking the clipboard?

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:51:26 -0500 Aaron Hillegass <a at hilleg.us> said:

> I'm a Mac programmer who has been spending more and more time on Linux, and I
> have become frustrated with the way clipboards work on Linux applications.
> 
> As a proof-of-concept, I have been implementing a stand-alone clipboard
> server and a client library for that server.  The only dependency is the
> sd-bus functions from libsystemd: https://github.com/hillegass/clipboard
> 
> Has the idea of pulling clipboard functionality out of the window server been
> considered by this group?  Is someone else working on this problem?

What is bad about it that it needs the entire ecosystem of apps, toolkits
to adapt to a new protocol/API etc. ? Remember that moving an entire ecosystem
is a mammoth job of getting buy-in from a critical mass of players - you cannot
force it on them. The fact that Wayland has gotten to where it is now is quite
an amazing job in this regard.

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