Le jeudi 21 juillet 2005 à 10:48 +0800, Gavin Chester a écrit : > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:10 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:51 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > Evo doesn't seem to integrate itself with the clipboard like all > > > > > other apps I use. That is, I need to leave mail open in a window > > > > > to copy parts of it to somewhere else. Say, I select a > > > > > link/address from within > > > > > > > > I've done this loads of times under gnome and it works. Perhaps it's a > > > > XFCE issue? > > > > > > Perhaps. It's that sort of feedback that I was hoping to get to see if > > > it affected anyone else. > > > > If you want feedback, I just tried it. Same behaviour here, ie. I > > cannot paste from evolution if I've closed the window I copied from. > > > > evolution 2.2.3, gnome 2.10, Xorg 6.8.2 > > Iain, I presume you meant to post your addition to the thread > (immediately above) to the list and not just to me? Anyway, it warrants > being in the thread on list :-) > > Thanks for the confirmation, combined with comment by NotZed, it is > appearing like Evo was not built with clipboard integration implemented > consistent with other apps. Shutting the window from which the text was > copied should _not_ purge the clipboard. This has caused me annoyance > on _so_ many occasions that I finally started this thread :-( > > Unless I hear a good rationale not to, I'll file this a bug in a few > days time - presuming that's the best way to have it given attention.
This is a limitation caused by X Window clipboard (or selection) implementation. It is not specific to Evolution. I think there are workarounds for that in gnome-settings-daemon from GNOME 2.12 (and KDE has probably a similar daemon to workaround it in klipper). -- Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mandriva _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
