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 years and we only have a few applications that follow it -the reason why most linux developers don't follow it is because they don't like it -when they develop versions of their software on windows or mac os x, they don't need to jump through these extra hoops to get it working with the clipboard -so because they don't have to do it in windows and mac os x, they feel they shouldn't have to on linux either -remember developers are inherently lazy and anything that makes it easier to work with your platform, they will use -this implementation makes it harder to work with linux and they clearly don't like the spec 2. We got a clipboard manager already, just install that -this is a bandaid solution -only works with text -not installed by default -there must be one developed for each DE and its the equivalent of reinventing the wheel over and over which seems to occur in open source quite often I notice 3. Implement and fix it on Xorg itself -this is the right solution as it's where the clipboard exists -won't need multiple versions for each DE out there as each DE would immediately get it -needs to be spec'd out as it's only an idea right now -reasons why old school linux developers won't implement it and a new generation of linux developers will have to work on it: http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2008/08/desktop-linux-suckage-clipboard.html -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
