On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 16:58 -0500, der Mouse wrote: > > Currently, if you 'copy' in gschem and 'paste' in another program, > > nothing useful happens. We should ideally try and use the X > > clipboard. > > I would actually recommend you use PRIMARY, not CLIPBOARD (though I > also recognize that you may not have meant "clipboard" to be the > technical term here).
No, Peter B and I discussed this, and we explicitly did _not_ want to use PRIMARY. The UI paradigm for PRIMARY is passing the currently selected text between applications. If we start claiming the PRIMARY X selection every time someone has a schematic object selected in gEDA, we get into a rather tedious situation where copy-pasting text, then pasting into an attribute of said selected component becomes very awkward. I don't know of any other applications which claim the PRIMARY selection for graphical objects. > "Maybe." An ascii-graphics rendering of the schematic might actually > be more useful in some circumstances. You can code it, but please make sure to include support for all the paths and bezier line segments etc. ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user