> AFAICS you're also upstream, right? yes > > 1) Well as you say, it works quite nicely with other DEs, at least > those close to GNOME (like Cinnamon). > Depending on Zeitgeist more or less excludes these users - maybe not > from a technical PoV, but rather because such people typically don't > use GNOME for things just like Zeitgeist. > > IMHO, it's a bit sad to focus such a nice tool only on a few desktop > system... I guess as a software project you have to make a decision what the goal is within the limited time and resources available. Do you want to integrate really well with full potential into a subset of DEs or do you want to run with a very small footprint on as many DEs as possible? To do both is as of limited resources not really feasible therefore for Diodon we chose the former.
> > 3) Well I have nothing against using Zeitgeist, but things have worked > so fare quite nicely without it, so can't you just make it one optional > backend, keeping the previous one as an alternative? > > Not requiring Zeitgeist has worked before, so why shouldn't it now? The previous backend doesn't work anymore as with Zeitgeist a feature has been added that the clipboard history can be accessed by external services and then a uri opened to paste the content. This is possible as Zeitgeist can be accessed through a DBus service. This feature is already used by services like the Unity Scope but to expanded to more services. Adding another backend would make this integration inconsistent and is therefore not desirable. > > As for the features: > I'm not sure whether e.g. "storing clipboard items infinitely" is a > good idea in all cases, over time this could be quite some privacy > issue. (Yes I've seen that you have history clearing). > I personally wouldn't need to have anything stored permanently at > all,... so maybe as solution could be to store things just in memory, > thereby not requiring any storage backend at all? If privacy is your concern it is actually possible to run Zeitgeist in memory only so each time you login your clipboard history is clean. You can do this by setting following env var (e.g. adding it to ~/.pam_environment): ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH=:memory: To summarize: it seems what you are looking for is a clipboard manager with a small footprint with basics function but runs well on all DEs. I think if you want to use Diodon for such a use case an option would be if a maintainer could be found who continues to maintain Diodon version 1.0.3. I am happy to support something like this but do not have the time to maintain it myself. Cheers, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
