Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 01:39 am, Dave Denholm wrote:
> Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> writes:
> > The point is that gnuplot has to run under the common desktop
> > environments that people actually use.
>
> If there are multiple incompatible protocols being used, then it may
> be better (well, more efficient) to write one standalone utility
> which can convert between the protocols, rather than insisting that
> every app can speak all the different protocols.

[tongue in cheek]

Well, the main players are KDE and Gnome.
Here's what my clouded crystal ball expects will happen:

KDE
===
The distros that push KDE will tweak gnuplot's clipboard code to play
nicely with klipper.  They will provide a wrapper with configuration
menus for all selectable X Resources and program options, providing
a state-full save and restore environment for individual users.
The resulting package will be called "knuplot".

Gnome
=====
The distros that push Gnome will tweak gnuplot's clipboard to play
nicely with Gnome's clipboard manager. They will configure in some
randomly chosen set of program options, and remove the documentation
on how to change them.  The resulting package will helpfully be named
something like "graphity".



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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA