https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151679
--- Comment #15 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #14) Note that DDE works cross-platform *inside LibreOffice*. You may create such links between two Calc documents, and they would work on Windows, Linux, or macOS. See e.g. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/query-on-paste-special-of-a-dde-link-from-calc-cells-to-writer-endnotes/53733, which discusses some specific problem with DDE links, which "works fine" when not created in endnotes. Some specific problems (which need their Bugzilla issues, and a proper fix) is not the same as "this has never really happened". But the current situation with the shared clipboard is not related to the internal use of DDE, which is possible to have with internal clipboard (not even macOS-specific pasteboard with an unique ID, described in comment 9). Shared clipboard is only needed to enable *other* applications to use DDE links; and that *might* be totally impossible on systems other than Windows, where DDE is implemented on OS level. I could imagine, that on macOS and Linux, any application would be unable to know how to run a DDE server other than itself, or how to communicate with it. Then use of shared clipboard for DDE is totally unwarranted on these platforms. Anyway, "I don't need it" is absolutely not helping in issues like this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
