New clipboard proposal

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Anybody checked the project gclipboard ?
a global solution crossworking with X.

http://opencjk.org/projects/gclipboard/index.html

>Dne pá 31. prosince 2004 4:22 Philip Van Hoof napsal(a):
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>>On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:11 -0800, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
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>>>On 30 Dec 2004, at 17:12, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 16:03 -0800, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
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>>>>>btw. History could be added by having some application catch all
>>>>>changes to whichever clipboard it is listening to and storing it,
>>>>>which  is what your clipboard manager would do anyway.
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>>>>I mentioned keeping histories. My exact words where that it could be an
>>>>option in the form of a plugin for that clipboard manager. As a matter
>>>>of fact there are a few applications today doing this for you. One
>>>>example is Klipper. Many people use Klipper. Others don't. Therefor
>>>>keeping clipboard history isn't going to be the main purpose.
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>>>>Making it easy for applications like Klipper to pop/push and query this
>>>>history would be delegated to such a plugin.
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>>>If the X server kept track of the contents of the clipboard, then
>>>klipper would continue to work exactly as it does today, no changes
>>>necessary. :-)
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>>yes, however. At this moment are applications like Klipper (gcm) using
>>hacks and tricks to do the task for which they are designed. I'd be
>>better if they didn't have to perform hacks and tricks to get the job
>>done.
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> I think these days no hacks or tricks are needed anymore (indeed, that means 
>only 'really needed' - there are enough broken apps that just don't happen to 
>cooperate nicely without hacks and tricks). XFixes can give notifications 
>about clipboard changes. There are proposals for notifying about apps owning 
>the clipboard quiting, for limiting the size of the transfers, there are 
>mimetypes.
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> Which again makes me wonder what exactly you'd like to fix and how. I 
>personally find your list of problems and your proposal too vague.
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>>I've e-mailed with the author of Klipper (Aaron Seigo).
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> This must be a misunderstanding. I doubt Aaron Seigo has even touched 
>internals of Klipper, let alone being its author. The original author of 
>Klipper is Andrew Stanley-Jones, Carsten Pfeiffer used to be the maintainer 
>until recently, and Esben Mose Hansen is the current maintainer 
>(http://webcvs.kde.org/kdebase/klipper/toplevel.cpp?rev=1.168&view=markup - 
>search for 'createAboutData'). I'm actually not sure how much these people 
>know about the underlying X details, because they're shielded by the 
>high-level QClipboard API. The person fixing the underlying X details usually 
>happens to be me.
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