From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T07:37:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-clipboard 0.1.0

Hal Fulton wrote:

Sorry for the slow reply ... timezones.

> Suppose you crank out a little text window with a Send button, and
> I'll work on the drb part?

Sounds good to me.  It's Friday here, so I should be able to have a go at it tomorrow morning.

> I think it's acceptable to make the user hit Send, although it
> would be nicer if it just sensed when the text had changed.

I think having to press Send isn't such a bad thing. A lot of the time you won't be switching backwards and forwards between the two systems.  Hence, there'll be many things that end up in the clipboard on one side that you don't necessarily want to send to the other.  Perhaps it could be an option.

I also think the idea of keeping the last N clips that were transferred, as Eric suggested, is a good idea.

Another thought is that we could use pull rather than push.  Ie, each side keeps track of all the things that have gone through the clipboard (assuming that's possible) and when you're sitting on Linux, say, and want something that was copied to the Windows clipboard, you ask the Linux instance of the client to show you the Windows clips ... and vice versa.

Cheers,

Harry O.