Quoted Dave Ray <apple@jonive.com>:
On the topic of copy-paste, I want to give an update for the latest betas on my system.
I can copy and paste both directions between Textedit and xterm. I can copy and paste both directions with X11-Gimp and Preview.
I continue to have unusual copy-paste behavior between X11-Gimp and Adobe Photoshop, Results are the same as I described from the previous version. I can copy from Gimp to Photoshop, but not the other way. I can copy from Photoshop to Preview fine and Preview to Gimp fine.
Well, that's interesting that it's still not working between Photoshop and Gimp. I don't have Photoshop available to test with. I suspect that Photoshop is using a Pict format with NSPasteboard, but I have no way of knowing for sure, unless I can add some introspection for the available types. I will look into this further, and perhaps write a test application for you that would print out the available NSPasteboard types. I want it to work flawlessly between all apps, as much as possible. Right now we support TIFF, JPEG, PNG, UTF-8, CompoundText, and STRING/Latin-1. The Pict support was more difficult I think, because I'm not sure how to translate between the Pict and the various formats. We need to convert Pict to TIFF, and Pict to PNG for the best results.
I continue to have unusual copy-paste behavior between X11-Eterm and anything othe than Eterm. Results are the same as I described from the previous version. Seems like they use different buffers. Under Linux I use a mix of xterm and Eterm and never saw this problem.
I have this on the TODO list on my desk. I'm sorry that it's taking a while to get to. I will try to take a look at the Eterm sources, as I suspect they are doing something unexpected.
Let me know if there's any info I can collect that could be useful. Dave
If I can think of anything, I will let you know. Once I've written the code for NSPasteboard introspection we should be able to get a little further on one of these issues. I appreciate your feedback. George -- http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/