When will we have a clipboard that works?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:19 +1100, ruscook wrote:
> I would expect the clipboard to be managed by the window manager and
> therefore be application independent. 

I don't think that is even possible. The applications need pretty deep
knowledge about the data structures. E.g. you copy a bunch of cells in
gnumeric - I think gnumeric has to tell the clipboard manager its data
structure and how to degrade it (e.g., when pasting into gedit). I'm not
sure I know what I'm talking about, but in any case data structure
knowledge is required somewhere, and a degradation policy. 


IIRC this page explains a lot about the intricacies
http://gcm.sourceforge.net/