Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-08-05 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Aug 2008, at 16:50, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> 7 - Is cut supported? How do you remove things from the clipboard? >>> How >>> many items can it

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-08-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Aug 2008, at 16:50, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> 7 - Is cut supported? How do you remove things from the clipboard? >> How >> many items can it hold? > > Cut is definitely supported, and will remain mapped to the Ctrl-X >

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-08-05 Thread Eben Eliason
t; of detail. > > I appreciate the specifying in advance and I think you are on the right > track. > > Since the journal abstracted the file system, its not easy to move files > between activities. I think we need an overall strategy for file sharing > between activities, HW eleme

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-08-04 Thread Eben Eliason
There is a fairly comprehensive specification [1] for the clipboard on the wiki. Most importantly it discusses the use of titles, icons, colors, and previews, which are the 4 elements of clippings that we need to support in various combination to make the clipboard successful. This spec isn't wor

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-22 Thread Faisal Anwar
I think if the gtk clipboard has the functionality, then I'll just document some examples for that and reference to the larger body of work available online. I guess there is less direct relevance for the sugar clipboardservice api right now when it comes to sharing stuff between activities (from t

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Well, we can add some sugar API around the gtk clipboard stuff, but I'm not sure there's a lot of value in there, as the gtk+ API is already quite high level. The problem here is how do we extend the existing X specs to deliver the experience we aim for. Last we talked about it, Marco was opposed

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-19 Thread Eben Eliason
I can't tell from your wording if you are implying that we will or will not be creating some custom wrappers for the clipboard service. I think we absolutely need them to accomplish several critical clipboard issues (among them, specifying icons, colors, titles, and previews for clippings). In fa

Re: [sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Faisal Anwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm playing around with the clipboard package on sugar and had a quick > question. So, the clipboardservice.py file shows some basic api for getting > and setting objects on the clipboard through the dbus. However,

[sugar] Question about clipboard service

2008-07-18 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hi, I'm playing around with the clipboard package on sugar and had a quick question. So, the clipboardservice.py file shows some basic api for getting and setting objects on the clipboard through the dbus. However, the add_object and get_object methods (and their variants) rely on knowing an objec