https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151679

--- Comment #8 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Patrick Luby from comment #7)
> moving this to an app-internal clipboard would completely disable this 
> feature.
> Presumably the feature was added because some users wanted it. Most likely,
> the LibreOffice UI would need to be changed to accomodate both groups of 
> users.

Speaking about system-specific programming, I only know something about
Windows; so please excuse if I speak nonsense here in macOS-specific issue.

I can imagine, that the currently implemented behavior is just created
uniformly on all OSes, with Windows-specific behavior being the main focus,
without taking into account, that possibly this behavior (pasting DDE links to
other applications) might make no sense on other OSes (?). It could make sense
like "well, even if this format is not used on other OSes, it doesn't hurt; so
the less system-specific code, the better".

On all other OSes, it *might* be a reasonable assumption that only pasting DDE
links from LibreOffice into LibreOffice itself might be useful, to create links
between different LO documents. If so, then an app-internal clipboard would
retain the main use case, so not disable it completely.

All that makes sense only if pasting DDE links to applications other than
LibreOffice itself doesn't make sense on macOS. And here, I lack any expertise.

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