[Thunar-dev] Clipboard management

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jens Luedicke wrote:
>>>I'm on the ThunarClipboardManager class right now, and wondering what 
>>>targets should be supported by Thunar.
>>>
>>>For example, Nautilus supports the x-special/gnome-copied-files and 
>>>UTF8_STRING targets, while only the further can be used for both cut and 
>>>copy. With UTF8_STRING, the clipboard content will be a plain 
>>>text/uri-list with no information about whether the data should be 
>>>copied or moved; that said, it's up to the target to decide what to do 
>>>with the uris.
>>>
>>>So, Thunar will atleast support the x-special/gnome-copied-files and 
>>>UTF8_STRING (mainly useful for pasting URIs to editors, etc.) targets.
>>>
>>>Does anybody know of other targets that would be worth to support?
> 
> random question:
> 
> how is the data within the clipboard marked for copy/cut?
> right now I set a variable to cut or copy (which of course is Filer
> internal). hints?

As said, for UTF8_STRING it isn't, it's just the text/uri-list there, 
and the target must guess whether to cut or copy.

With x-special/gnome-copied-files, it's basicly text/uri-list content 
with either "cut" or "copy" prepended.

> jens

Benedikt