Bug 329925

Summary:	Use content negotiation to determine type of data to transfer for the X Windows selection
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Hohyeis <hohyeis>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description Hohyeis 2014-01-13 19:59:26 UTC

Presently, when the selection can  be interpreted as either text or graphics, Okular prompts the user with options to select text or graphics for the X Windows selection or clipboard.

This  feature is to not prompt the user for what type to use for the clipboard data, but instead to use the built in mechanism for content negotiation with the application receiving the selection.
Here is some information about content negotiation.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-01-13 20:04:44 UTC

I guess it makes sense. Thought it'd increase a bit the code complexity and honestly i think that at the point of doing the square selection you know what you want to do.

But i'm not oposed to patches :-)