2013/4/16 Jiergir Ogoerg <f35f22...@gmail.com> > Hi, > Between application running on X11 apparently there's no standard way to > tell if file(s) (their URIs) have been "cut" or "copied" into the > clipboard, so you don't know what to do on "Paste", so people invented > (silly) workarounds as explained here [1]: > > "Since there is no standard way to copy and paste files between > applications on X11, various MIME types and conventions are currently in > use. For instance, Nautilus expects files to be supplied with a > x-special/gnome-copied-files MIME type with data beginning with the > cut/copy action, a newline character, and the URL of the file." > > I wonder if the Wayland protocol allows for a proper/easy solution to this > problem (I'm talking about cut/copy/paste, not drag-n-drop), like an > additional uint32_t info field to code the type of action into it, not just > the URI strings? >
No, currently it doesn't. Actually, there is no action field for drag and drop either. I made a patch, but it's still pending: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/007931.html That should however also work for selection, beside drag and drop. > > I looked here [2] and wl_data_device::set_selection_arguments has a "uint > serial" field but I'm not sure if it's meant to solve this problem or for a > different reason. > It's not related. The serial field is provided by the compositor in certain input events, and is used to make sure set_selection is called because of an input event. > > Can anyone please explain? > > > [1] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qclipboard.html > [2] > http://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_device.html > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > >
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