@comment 6: in true unix history of having one tool to do one thing right i do not necessarily think it is a workaround to have a program dedicated to managing the clipboard.
however i think solid copy&paste is a feature everyone can expect to work out of the box. and because i think it is highly unlikely to get this supported in X directly anytime soon i think the right thing to do is to include a clipboard manager (be it glipper or parcellite) in the default distribution. maybe in a modified version to show no task list icon (and thus only exposing the basic "copy and paste just works"-behavior but not the advanced history&co options). somewhere i read a complain against clipboard manager where it blocks a feature in gimp that responds differently to paste-requests from different applications (thus exporting all pixel data when pasting to a third party application and doing some internal speed-optimized pointer logic when simply pasting to a different layer within gimp). this is a valid point but it nowhere justifies to ship such a broken copy&paste for most use cases. and if this behavior is so critical gimp may just provide two copy-methods one for the data and one for the pointer -- and export the more sane one to the ctrl-c shortcut. --> we should really try to get a clipboard manager in the default distribution for karmic. the importance of this bug should be raised to... at least something above "normal" imho. -- Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
