gcm Gnome clipboard Manager?

[Mark Roach]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:48 +1300, Daryn Hanright wrote:

> Was just wondering if there where any plans to package up the GNOME Clipboard
> Manager (http://gcm.sourceforge.net/) for ubuntu?
> 
> It looks like it was packaged up for Debian, but doesn't appear to be now (which probably answers my question why its not in ubuntu!)
> 
> I wonder if they had some issues with it?

It was abandoned by its author as being unsuitable for its intended
purpose. There were problems with applications that supported multiple
target types, or that put large amounts of data in the selection
(gnumeric, openoffice, etc). Basically, it is a bandaid, when surgery is
required....

-Mark