On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Keith Packard wrote: > 2) Selection Tracking > > Applications like the KDE 'klipper' monitor selection contents to save > them and also perform actions based on them. Right now, this happens by > having these clients contantly polling the selection. > > The proposal is to have a event delivered whenever the selection changes. >
Oh yes to this one! I rember back in the openlook(XView) days writing a program to move selections between x and openlook. It was an absolute pain having to poll it. Which I did every second! The only problem with the fixes extension will people use it, as they will have to write the code twice so it supports "legancy" ie not Xfree86 systems. (thinking of selection tracking here) As kludges exist for some of these fixes, a compatibility library could be made so people who wrote code in the "new" way, would have some kind of support on other systems, but still could write things "clean", in the case of selection tracking, it would do the polling, but return events as if the XFIXES was there. James _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
