[Thunar-dev] Clipboard management

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Benedikt Meurer 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?

Why not support standard STRING as well?  Filenames are generally in the
system encoding anyway, not UTF8.  Do all apps (that we care about)
support UTF8_STRING?

	-brian

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