Clipboard Improvements Idea

[James Westby]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:53:06 -0400, Sarah Strong <sarah.e.strong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, all,
> 
> I'm a third year computer science student poking around on GSOC ideas. I
> asked about the state of clipboard support in the xorg project, and got a
> very useful overview of how X handles it: http://pastebin.com/1n4mRck8. It
> sounds like it wouldn't be appropriate to make any change to X in fixing
> clipboard management issues. The xorg devs seem to think it'd be appropriate
> to eliminate the pointer to xorg in the description
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2010/Ideas, too.

Hi Sarah,

Nice job on investigating this.

> Combining that with James' comment, it looks like the most obvious way to
> tackle this task would be per-application. If that isn't a big enough job,
> perhaps David Bensimon could combine it with another grab bag idea he's
> mentoring such as the nautilus improvements one, or with other one hundred
> paper cuts style usability issues
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts
> 
> Does that sound like a reasonable modification to the idea?

I think so. It depends on how many apps need fixing I guess. Is it
individual apps that break, or classes such as running Qt apps under
GNOME?

It might be a difficult project to do if we have no idea which apps
don't work :-)

Thanks,

James