From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T07:40:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-clipboard 0.1.0

Raphael Bauduin wrote:

> KDE specific, but as it was mentioned earlier in this thread:
> you can use DCOP to interact with the clipboard:
> 
> https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/36/KDE_Scripting_DCOP.pdf
> 
> There is a perl example in the article, but I think stable ruby bindings 
> are on their way.

It would be really nice if there was a common mechanism used by all X11 desktops for this kind of generic stuff, rather than each having their own :-(.

I don't suppose there's some way we can get to a lower level API, and avoid being KDE (or Gnome or ...) specific. Does anyone have any ideas on whether that's feasible?

H.