New clipboard proposal
Jakub Piotr Cłapa
loc at toya.net.pl
Thu Dec 30 17:20:56 PST 2004
John Davidorff Pell wrote:
> For massive-data-transfer, both an X extension and some dbus
> implementation will require transfers of huge amounts of data between
> processes. On Winblows (M$ does get *some* things right), in M$ Word
> when you quit word with a large clipboard it asks if you want that
> clipboard to continue to be available after Word quits. This is just
> what the X server should do.
I disagree. This dialog is at least very confusing and irritating.
Better - save the contents on disk and recall them when needed. (it
won't be a performance penalty because disk cache is working really
great these days)
Of course clipboard history deamon will have to flush really old entries.
> P.S. I don't think anyone appreciates this super-cross posting that
> you've done...
And your topposting either. ;]
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z wyrazami szacunku,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa
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