> On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > > For this to work, we need cross-desktop agreement on a format > > for the text. Since most clipboard mechanisms let applications > > give a list of available formats, this format need not be the > > only (or even preferred) format for all applications, but it > > should be widely supported. > > IMHO a suitable candidate would be OpenDocument. > The destination program can selectively, depending on its > capabilities, > extract any level of details, e.g. just the content, basic > formatting, etc.
Well, other candidates could be possible, like PDF, but it doesn't maintain a real logical sturcture AFAIK. > > Especially if one considers not only text made of words, but also > situations > where currently a text based exchange is used for structured data, > e.g. > tables formatted as CSV, or text data is mixed with non-text data, > e.g. BeOS/Haiku spreadsheets can use text/x-csv or something I think... But it should be easy to add others. OOo format would be a little harder until it's ported and a translator for it is written though. > copying a selection in a browser, including images. Indeed html doesn't embed images... François. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
