On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote: > > Alright. I'm not too familiar with toolkits, so could you explain why > > toolkits need to access the selection at arbitrary times (specifically > > while unfocused), instead of only as a response to direct user input > > (which in all relevant cases assigns the focus first)? > > What I mean is it breaks the api, the api provided by toolkits to > access clipboard will not work at any time, a constraint that doesn't > exist in any other systems.
We've "broken" toolkit APIs in other ways by design in Wayland - e.g. absolute positioning. Design decisions that have been made in other display systems and affected toolkit design shouldn't then automatically flow back to implement Wayland design decisions. Cheerio, Rob _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
