[sldev] GTK 2.8

[Alissa Sabre]

Boroondas,

> > the patch [...] changes the viewer's window system interface as
> > follows:
> > [...]
> > - Passing data to/from system clipboard through Gtk clipboard
> >   abstraction.
> > [...]
> >   
> /me wonders: Would that make Copy-by-Highlighting and 
> Paste-with-Middle-Mouse-Button work for SL, if the window/desktop 
> manager is configured to support it?

I don't think so.

The UI trigger for copy-and-paste operation is independent from the
how the data is passed, and the application needs to understand the
user's input event and start copy or paste operation.

I'm not very experienced on recent X11 scenes and not sure what is
"copy-by-highlighting", but if it is the traditional xterm behaviour
in early 1990s days, it should be the copying through "SELECTION"
clipboard...  Well, it is a different thing than the ordinally
cut/copy-and-paste, but the feature is *partially* implemented in my
patch so that the input methods' re-conversion works.  See the actual
source code for details.

    Alissa Sabre
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