[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-18 Thread pyrates
Welcome Sarah. If you read the comments here, I don't think people want it fixed on a per application basis. Linux developers coming from windows and mac os x, don't want to have to put in extra work on linux just to get the clipboard working with their app. They want it taken care of for them.

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-18 Thread Sarah Strong
I'm tackling this bug for Ubuntu through Google Summer of Code 2010. You can check out a summary of the problem at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence. If an application you develop for is listed as broken there and you're interested in helping a novice developer implement the ClipboardMan

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-18 Thread Sarah Strong
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #622049 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622049 ** Also affects: tomboy via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622049 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the p

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-18 Thread Sarah Strong
** Bug watch added: code.google.com/p/chmsee/issues #88 http://code.google.com/p/chmsee/issues/detail?id=88 ** Also affects: chmsee via http://code.google.com/p/chmsee/issues/detail?id=88 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Eclipse bugs #317255 https://bugs.

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-18 Thread Sarah Strong
** Also affects: inkscape Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnucash via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510205 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-18 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gtk Status: Unknown => New -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-07 Thread Rickard Närström
@Visraus: This is fixed in upstream xulrunner, and as the status you see here track the upstream bug report it is marked as "Fix Released". As of 100 paper cuts, this has already been denied for that project several times mostly with motivations that it is to complicated to fix for a paper cut. **

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-07 Thread Vistaus
Why is xulrunner set to Fix Released? The bug's still there. Please change it back until it really is fixed. ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You re

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-06-05 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xulrunner Status: Unknown => Fix Released -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-25 Thread pyrates
This list is gonna get pretty long if we start listing out every single app that doesn't follow the specification. The reason being that most of them don't follow it. And will the Ubuntu developers now have to keep adding in the "follow the clipboard specification" fix every time one of these app

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-25 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: empathy Status: New => Confirmed -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-25 Thread Guilhem
Rather than trying to implement a plugin system like srgb proposed, which IMHO might get very complicated as it involves a lot of persons/programs, I think the spec could slightly be changed : >From http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager "Responsibilities of clipboard owners If a client

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-25 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: openoffice Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread srgb
The most complicated part of the issue described here is following: "Only application knows how to handle its buffer properly, hence when it's closed - nobody can paste it." The example can be quite simple: you enter formatted text, pictures and tables in OOo' Writer and then select-all and past

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread Rickard Närström
** Also affects: chromium-browser via http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32291 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: gtk via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510230 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: xulrunner vi

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: abiword Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs ma

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: epiphany Status: Unknown => New ** Changed in: empathy Status: Unknown => New -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #619561 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619561 ** Also affects: epiphany via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619561 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: openoffice via http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/sh

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread pyrates
I've been watching the comments carefully over the past few days and we seem to be falling into the same traps previous comments already have mentioned but we can't do: 1. It's already spec'd out on a per application basis on how to properly implement it on linux. -this spec has been around for

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread ktulu77
Michael Nagel, I have read carefully your comment and I think you are right for the non-static data and it might be also complicated to deal with the history of clipboard managers and this kind of data also... We could have a history per clipboard type, the text history would have more items than b

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread Michael Nagel
Making the xserver the owner of all content is pretty much the same as using a clipboard manager and making that the owner of all content. There are working clipboard managers ready to be installed from the repository -- namely klipper, glipper and parcellite . they are the more or less official wo

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-24 Thread Rickard Närström
There is already a solution for this, it's designed and ready and it is currently being implementing it in applications (one by one). This already works with many applications (some listed in the description). The new specs for this is available at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-23 Thread Julio A. Garcia Lopez
Its would be a great solution but i think that its a solution that requires a lot of work, and would be incompatible with other distributions. Somebody knows the internal structure of XServer to say if i am in a error? 2010/5/24 J Bruni > Wondering aloud > > If the application that owns the

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-23 Thread J Bruni
Wondering aloud If the application that owns the clipboard provides its contents (unavailable once it is closed)... What if we always make Xserver itself be this application (the owner of the contents), and thus always serve its contents (always available!) i.e., when the user copies (CTRL+C

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-23 Thread Kip Warner
"I don't want to wait for Zealous Zebu (Ubuntu 17.04) to see this resolved." ROFLMAO!!! -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct s

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-23 Thread J Bruni
I don't want to wait for Zealous Zebu (Ubuntu 17.04) to see this resolved. As a user, I want to use copy/paste being able to paste from a closed application. (Why leave it open, then go back only to close it?) As a developer, I work with PHP doing simple web applications. I don't know about compl

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-05-16 Thread nss
this bugs exists also in code::blocks 8.02 -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubunt

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-04-01 Thread Tralalalala
Rafal-maj-it wrote 8 hours ago: "Thanks guys - finally the bug is fixed and backported everywhere :) April Fools' day! Sorry guys" Not a realistic joke at all, because this bug won't be fixed before the year 2020 and probably won't be fixed at all. -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the sour

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-04-01 Thread Hell Pé
** Description changed: ===+++ _ ! ALL USERS ! _ +++=== ===+++ READ THIS BEFORE MAKING A COMMENT OR MODIFICATION +++=== IMPORTANT 1: Please see the WORKAROUND a few lines below. IMPORTANT 2: Please don't post any "me too message"; use the "Does

Re:[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-04-01 Thread Bartolomeo Nicolotti
Very good! Bye > Thanks guys - finally the bug is fixed and backported everywhere :) > > > > > > April Fools' day! Sorry guys > > -- > MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 > You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-04-01 Thread Rafal-maj-it
Thanks guys - finally the bug is fixed and backported everywhere :) April Fools' day! Sorry guys -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Nagel
Here is a log from IRC ubuntu-devel where Collin Watson said some things. Bottom Line: you have to install a Clipboard Manager but Ubuntu is not currently planning to install one by default. Installing a Clipboard Manager is not seen as a workaround but as a solution. Technically it is a bit mor

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-03-16 Thread Dahaniel
Bug is persisting in Karmic and I agree that it is CRITICAL! When I first switched to Linux I ran into this bug very often now I kind of learned to live with it (which doesn't make it better). -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-03-06 Thread pyrates
@LimCore I don't think you understand the meaning of the definitions "band aid" and "work around". A "band aid" or "work around" means it's not properly fixed or only partially implemented. The implementation is not expandable. It actually creates more work in the end due to it's bad design. S

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-03-05 Thread LimCore
pyrates, you say "We don't want a bandaid solution or a work around" - what? Well, we, the USERS - we DO WANT a working solution, even if it is "bandaid" or "work around". Also, why this would be bad if all applications would rely on such external clipboard instead doing it better themselves? Th

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread Sandro Mani
Tralalalala: 1. I don't know if you ever coded or worked on a larger project, but I can guarantee you that no matter how good the documentation of a program is you still first have to read through the whole code if it wasn't you writing it. A program consists of the written part which everyone c

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread FMaz
Ok folks, their is 3 things that can resume this 200+ messages thread: 1) Many people want a bug fix, not a workarround; 2) The bug is too complex to be fixed by users, and will need a -- if not many-- really good developper to be fixed; 3) It seems like it's a X / xorg bug, not a Ubuntu or Ubuntu

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread Tralalalala
Sandro Mani wrote on 2010-02-21: "The person(s) who originally implemented the clipboard may very well not be working on Xorg anymore, hence someone would have to read through the whole unfamiliar code and understand it, just like we" Then there's something fundamentally wrong at Xorg. It doesn

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread FMaz
@toobuntu: That would be a great idea. Not yet an acceptable solution, but at least give the feeling that the *problem* is officially recognized by the dev team, and not just a "wish". -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread toobuntu
Would it be out of place to suggest that an entry be added to the release notes that this is a known issue and give the workarounds of: (1) leaving the source window or program open until after the paste is complete or (2) installing parcellite (any), glipper (Ubuntu), or klipper (Kubuntu)? I do no

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread pyrates
@LimCore Have you been paying attention? We don't want a bandaid solution or a work around. We want it fixed at the source. And that includes getting rid of the stupid selection based copy and paste that only appeals to those who want the terminal app to come first when it shouldn't even be req

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-23 Thread LimCore
Just install Percellite by default (MIR) and we are done! No need for too much talking, lets do it ;) -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-22 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Hi Dan Connolly I'm answering you directly if you don't mind to don't spam other users. Actually I doubt that the priority has been set by a developer yet, therefore the current priority is probably only there to make sure that they notice the bug. This bug is older than the "Affect me too" fea

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-22 Thread Dan Connolly
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 19:13 +, Tralalalala wrote: [...much ranting elided...] > Users are losing their work time after time. They write a large e-mail > in OpenOffice.org (yes, some people do such things), then copy > everything, close OpenOffice.org and start Evolution to send the > contents o

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Indeed. From a user point of view, it's hard to know what changes will affect a lot of projects and people, that's the developer task. Firstly, this bug has to gain visibility to Canonical and xserver-xorg, so appropriate developers can take a look at it. Since this bug has 52 people affected, this

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Guilhem
This bug is harder to fix than I thought : I thought it was the X server's responsability to claim the xclipboard when an client exits (thus a bug in Xorg), but the freedesktop xclipboard specification are very clear : " If a client needs to exit while owning the CLIPBOARD selection, it should req

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Sandro Mani
Geees will people stop complaining for something they got for FREE? It is like if you got a present and start insulting the person which gave it to you because it does not work the way you want. It is certainly okay to point out things that have some design flaws, but please just try to keep in

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Description changed: + ===+++ _ ! ALL USERS ! _ +++=== + ===+++ READ THIS BEFORE MAKING A COMMENT OR MODIFICATION +++=== + + IMPORTANT 1: Please see the WORKAROUND a few lines below. + + IMPORTANT 2: Please don't post any "me too message"; use the "Does

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
At the mean time, as continously repeated, using a bug report as a forum will only prevent developers from working with it. If you want Canonical to notice the priority : Click affects me too. If you want xserver-xorg or other projects to notice the priority : subscribe yourself to upstream bug r

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread pyrates
So linux does it differently compared to the method that windows and OS X does? Why not do it the same? Why don't we change the freedesktop.org to match how windows and OS X does? I agree with developers who refuse to implement it because it's not the same on windows and OS X, that it's stupid.

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Tralalalala
Saïvann Carignan wrote 19 hours ago: "Developers regularly read bugs. When they can fix the bug, they assign the bug to themself and generally, it doesn't take a week before we get a update." That's the best joke I've ever heard. None of the bugs I've commented on has ever been fixed. Bugs which

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
You are correct in your statement, if you just read the bug description, there is almost no mention about xserver-xorg. The idea that the specification should change (which means modifying xserver-xorg behavior) only appears in last comments. Some users speaks like if this has always been THE s

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-20 Thread Jackflap
Saïvann : It's not only up to xserver-xorg to fix this. There is an independent Freedesktop specification outlining how the clipboard works. It says clearly that all applications, when quitting should export the clipboard contents to the global clipboard. xserver-xorg actually adheres to the speci

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread pyrates
If the xorg team refuses to implement the clipboard properly, and another group wants to fix it, fork it. You can do that. Or they can start from scratch like google did with Android because they saw that in order to fix stuff like implementing the clipbard properly, they had to replace xorg comp

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread FMaz
"Linking a bug report can be done with two click, and launchpad has a good documentation. " Personnaly, I didn't even know that. Maybe it's easy when you know how to do, but the interface is not intuitive for doing so. Users will not read pages of documentation to report a bug. They already must

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Jackflap : As said previously, Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth are not in charge of xserver-xorg development. Ubuntu is a distribution. Canonical can contribute to bugfixes to upstream projects such as xserver-xorg, but drastic changes of concept needs to be done by the upstream projects themselves

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Jackflap
Dan, Interesting question. As we probably all know, Canonical have been pushing a usability drive, which is led by Mark Shuttleworth. This has produced the FUSA applet (which was developed for 8.10), the notification area overhaul (included in 9.04), the theme updates (9.10) and we have the MeMe

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread FMaz
How intuitive that bug system is for casual users In 5 years, no one has been able to report this bug to the right place. :( -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Dan Connolly : Developers regularly read bugs. When they can fix the bug, they assign the bug to themself and generally, it doesn't take a week before we get a update. Each Ubuntu release has blueprints, which are discussed in UDS with the ubuntu concil. Anyone can contribute and participate. Howev

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Dan Connolly
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 16:47 +, Jackflap wrote: > Look it's open-source. It's an open-source development model. That's how > it works. Is it really every-man-for-himself in Ubuntu? Doesn't Shuttleworth set priorities for each release? Isn't there a paid Canonical development staff? Don't they g

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread FMaz
[off_topic] I just notice that I've Nominated this bug for Lucid... Now that I see that I'm the only one who have done that, I'm asking myself if I really know that nominations are (as it's not explained, or hidden somewhere that I'm unable to find) Do nominations are votes for the distribution

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Jackflap
I didn't even read his post cuz he's just ranting. This is not the place to rant. If ranting actually got any results, then I would be ranting myself. The reason I use Ubuntu is because despite the (admittedly) really shitty bus like this one, I still prefer it to Windows and Mac OS X is too expe

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread FMaz
@Jackflap: No matter the development model, by it's nature, the project tend to a goal: Be an operating system. Having no real clipboard that really works is a failure to this goal. 2010/2/19 Jackflap > Look it's open-source. It's an open-source development model. That's how > it works. > > W

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread pyrates
@jackflap If you're motivated to use linux because the sole reason is that its open source, that's fine for you. It's not for the rest of the world. And clearly you had no counter points to what was mentioned since all you can say is that open source isn't for him. -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread FMaz
I do agree that this bug is an epic fail. I do agree with the comment saying that we are users, not developpers. (On this, I would also add that is really hard to join the developper community, it's not user friendly at all.) But I must disagree about the comment comparing Linux to Mac OS. When pe

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread pyrates
I'd like to also add that putting in something like this isn't usually by a motivated developer. It's by a developer whose told by his boss or manager to implement this feature. This is why windows and mac os x has a proper clipboard. The developers have to implement it or they're fired. Despit

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread pyrates
Way to go @Tralalalala ! This is what happens when developers with no monetary incentives are put in charge of features in linux. And before someone comes in with IBM paying developers to work on linux, virtually none of it is in the desktop. It's all command line based because IBM makes their m

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Jackflap
Look it's open-source. It's an open-source development model. That's how it works. Why do you have to rant and rave on a technical bugtracker about a development model that clearly doesnt satisfy your expectations? Perhaps open-source just isn't for you. -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-19 Thread Tralalalala
LimCore wrote on 2010-02-09: "This is crazy, this bug has 45 people that take time to go to LP and click affects-me-too, it has a dozen of duplicates, it is one of most reported bug I seen, and yet it is just Wishlist priority?! Ubuntu fails to provide most basic functionality expected from a de

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-10 Thread Jackflap
Installing glipper or parcellite by default is not a fix, if we did that, then we wouldn't have solved the problem that the specification itself was designed to solve. And the real reason this bug is not a papercut because it is not trivial. If it was trivial then someone would have fixed it alrea

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-10 Thread Bartolomeo Nicolotti
Could someone explain why this isn't one of the first bugs to fix in hundred paper cuts where perfectly fits? Could someone tell us when this bug will be fixed? Many thanks -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You rece

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread Tobias Bradtke
On 09.02.2010 22:41, Endolith wrote: > I'm not sure why this doesn't count as a papercut. > > "trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter > in default installation of Ubuntu or Kubuntu Desktop Edition" > > Isn't it trivially fixable by installing one of the workarounds by

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread Endolith
I'm not sure why this doesn't count as a papercut. "trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter in default installation of Ubuntu or Kubuntu Desktop Edition" Isn't it trivially fixable by installing one of the workarounds by default? -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work i

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread LimCore
The addition or removal of a package is not a paper cut. "Replace F-Spot with Solang" is not a paper cut, neither is "Install simple-ccsm by default." https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut ; Sorry my bad ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread LimCore
Imho this should be as one of "one hundred paper cuts". If not, then please comment why not, thanks ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received th

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread LimCore
WISHLIST - it turns out this is not a problem, even a bug marked just "Wishlist" will be worked on in case as this one (lots of duplicates and reporters etc). According to guys at IRC ##ubuntu-bugs @ irc.freenet.org Btw, and despite "epic fail" being removed from description, ubuntu devels also

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread Vish
** Description changed: - WORKAROUND + *** WORKAROUND *** --- Install klipper, glipper, or parcellite - This -could- be the underlying cause of bug #7986. - This is a general issue that seems to be independant of any

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread C de-Avillez
** Description changed: WORKAROUND --- Install klipper, glipper, or parcellite - - This bug is an Epic Fail, because it's 2009 and still we do not *fully* - support trivial things like copy/paste. - - Fortunately thi

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread FMaz
That's so true... I think a bug should be raised of priority when it start to flood the bug tracker database with tons of duplicates & complains. Actually, my nightmare are about me, learning C+ at a suffisent level to submit a patch. IMO, that should also be considered as a good reason to incr

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread Micah Gersten
** Description changed: + WORKAROUND + --- + Install klipper or glipper + + + This bug is an Epic Fail, because it's 2009 and still we do not *fully* support trivial things like copy/paste. Fortunately this works well

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-02-09 Thread LimCore
This is crazy, this bug has 45 people that take time to go to LP and click affects-me-too, it has a dozen of duplicates, it is one of most reported bug I seen, and yet it is just Wishlist priority?! Ubuntu fails to provide most basic functionality expected from a desktop since windows 3.11... Fo

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2010-01-26 Thread sklp
Sadly chromium/Google chrome also appear to have this bug... http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32291 ** Bug watch added: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues #32291 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32291 -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is close

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-26 Thread Saïvann Carignan
pyrates : Xulrunner (Firefox) only fixed their clipboard code to comply with the specification, which is mentionned in the bug description. That only means that Firefox and other applications that rely on xulrunner (thunderbird, sunbird) will have clipboard working correctly, while other applicatio

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-26 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Description changed: This bug is an Epic Fail, because it's 2009 and still we do not *fully* support trivial things like copy/paste. Fortunately this works well in KDE. This -could- be the underlying cause of bug #7986. This is a general issue that seems to be independant of any

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-26 Thread pyrates
I'm not a programmer, so how was this fixed in firefox? What clipboard manager was it integrated with? Does that limit it to a certain DE then since this wasn't fixed in Xorg? Did they remove anything like the selection clipboard that uses the middle mouse button? -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-26 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xorg-server Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-26 Thread Micah Gersten
Tracking Upstream xorg request ** Changed in: null Importance: High => Unknown ** Changed in: null Status: Invalid => Unknown ** Changed in: null Remote watch: None => freedesktop.org Bugzilla #25220 ** Project changed: null => xserver ** Project changed: xserver => xorg-server --

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Olsson
Good news guys! This guy from Red Hat, called Martin Stránský, just fixed this bug in upstream Firefox! The mozilla devs merged the patch into the "mozilla1.9.3" branch (current hg master) which means that it will probably go out in Firefox 3.7 Firefox 3.7 won't be ready in time for Lucid though

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-24 Thread mac_v
@Endolith: Adding a new package to the default install is not a papercut task. Kindly bring up the discussion for adding the package by default , in the desktop mailing list. ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: New => Invalid -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-24 Thread Endolith
It can easily be fixed by installing a clipboard manager by default ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Invalid => New -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-24 Thread mac_v
Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project. For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber.

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-21 Thread pyrates
I dont think so. So I submitted a bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25220 Anyone want to add to it, feel free. ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #25220 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25220 -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is cl

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-21 Thread DanielRoesler
Patrick Roberts wrote: > That's useless. It needs to be fixed in X, so it will > work in every application and in every desktop > environment. Question: Is there a bug registered on the X bug tracker? If so, could we add it as an upstream bug report? -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the sour

Re: [Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-20 Thread srgb
Olaf wrote 2 hours ago: "It's not of the highest priority because there really are much higher priorities." That's the point of discussion. You think some new weird feature is a high prio. I think (as most of distributors do) usability is the highest prio ever. 2009/11/20, FMaz : > Olaf wrote 2

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-20 Thread FMaz
Olaf wrote 2 hours ago: "It's not of the highest priority because there really are much higher priorities." This problem have been reported more than 5 years ago. I think that this improvement should have been priorised over many other new features that are less important. Yes it's not a maj

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-20 Thread Patrick Roberts
Olaf wrote 49 minutes ago: "I really believe most people prefer speed and hardware support and reducing reggressions as high priority issues." The most important is to have an operating system you can trust, an operating system which is reliable, an operating system that doesn't forget something

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-20 Thread pyrates
I wish this would get fixed in the Xorg layer instead. Fixing it on a per application basis takes more time then it should need to. And fixing it at the DE layer is a mere bandaid solution, meaning when it finally is fixed in the Xorg layer, the fix in the DE layer won't matter. -- MASTER Copy-

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-20 Thread Jackflap
Well, it looks like some nice developer has volunteered his time to the Mozilla suite to fix this bug (iirc), and progress is being made to fix this for Firefox. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311340 Also, please, less whining, and more contributing. -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't w

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2009-11-20 Thread Endolith
Is there some good reason why Parcellite (or some other tool) isn't just included by default to work around this? -- MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

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