Hi all, I've been poking around inside the wine clipboard system, in an attempt to make it properly compliant with the agreed upon specs over at
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt At the moment, Wine mixes up CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY, which is not a good idea. Ideally, Wine would work like GTK, Qt, Mozilla and all the rest do, which is to keep CLIPBOARD for ctrl-c, ctrl-v type operations, and primary for selected text/middle click. When you select some text in say notepad, both CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY are grabbed, which is wrong, only primary should be grabbed. In a similar fashion, when you select Edit | Copy only CLIPBOARD should be grabbed. Currently, selecting text in Wine doesn't do anything (at least, not in notepad). So, the obvious way to fix that would be to introduce a new Wine-specific API, that lets the Wine controls call SetSelectedText or something, which then interfaces with X. So, I think x11drv/clipboard.c should be changed to basically eliminate references to PRIMARY, as without the ability to deal with middle clicks and grab-on-select, Wine has no business changing that selection. Therefore my questions are: 1) Should I try and hack up a patch to stop wine using PRIMARY? 2) What are the rules governing new wine specific APIs. I know the DLL Separation work is supposed to eliminate them, but there are no FAQs anywhere on it that I can see, could somebody explain this please? thanks -mike -- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center
