[sugar] [PATCH] Move clipboard service into the shell

[Eben Eliason]

Is this change consistent with the strong need to support icons,
colors, titles, and previews for all clippings?  I think I recall
there being extensions we could use to implement these features, but I
also recall Marco not being thrilled with that idea.  These extensions
are essential elements of our (multi-element) clipboard, and not just
some "extra sugar" I'd like on top of it.  Additionally, I've been
targeting lots of these design/implementation bugs at 9.1.0, since the
clipboard is such a fundamental aspect of our OS, given the fullscreen
nature of activities. =)

- Eben


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> there has been some discussion about the convenience of sticking to
> the same clipboard mechanisms used in other X11-based desktops, so the
> current clipboard service based on D-Bus doesn't make much sense any
> more.
>
> Moving its implementation to the shell process will reduce overall
> code size, latency in UI operations and memory usage.
>
> Also plan to move next the activity registry inside the shell, so
> we'll be able to drop the sugar-shell-service process altogether.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
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