Clipboard Improvements Idea

[David Bensimon]

James Westby wrote:
> 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 :-)

James,

I would be willing to do testing to find out which applications reported
in Bug #11334 (and its duplicates) still wipe the clipboard when
exiting. I also think that a better desktop environment level clipboard
manager should be used (and is a better idea). I believe KDE does this
properly.

David

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
>