On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > I only ask that you take a moment and consider if there might be a way to > make things faster for the user which is where speed really counts. > Could some of the handling of the system clipboard be done automatically > and only when needed to mitigate the speed tradeoff? If is impractical > fair enough, I was just asking because the code was being changed anyway. It should work that way but I haven't been able to build The GIMP to check for ages now. To be completely clear: Edit/Cut, Copy and Paste _ought_ to transparently work between applications. The image-related KDE apps get this right and when GIMP 1.3.x devel code is once again up and running on this system I will ensure that it works properly in the GIMP too. You are quite right that none of this costs _any_ significant resources until it's actually used to do what the _user_ wants. Which means it is unquestionably the Right Thing. Nick.
