Re: Intent to implement: Async Clipboard API

2018-05-15 Thread Nika Layzell
Unfortunately, we can't get rid of the Gtk+/Clipboard hacks yet. There is still a synchronous API for reading the clipboard (document.execCommand("paste")) which is exposed to webextensions. Beyond that, we'd need to read the clipboard asynchronously for ctrl-V paste events. For now, I don't inten

Re: Intent to implement: Async Clipboard API

2018-05-15 Thread Martin Stransky
That would be really awesome to get rid of all Gtk+/Clipboard hacks we have there to transfer async clipboard on Linux to sync at Geckoso does it mean we can provide async clipboard only on toolkit/widget code level? ma. On 05/14/2018 11:05 PM, Nika Layzell wrote: In about a week, my int

Intent to implement: Async Clipboard API

2018-05-14 Thread Nika Layzell
In about a week, my intern will be starting. As an initial project, I intend for her to implement the Async Clipboard API. Summary: The Async Clipboard API provides a more modern and performant interface to the user's clipboard. This API is intended to replace many consumers of the existing `docum