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[Biju Chacko]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:26, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:28:01 -0700 (PDT)
> manny rosa <manny_robot_freak at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking, is it possible to add a feature to the
> > panel that will allow users to send arguments to an
> > application when you middle-click on a launcher. For
> > example, If I'm viewing a text file using less or
> > something and there's a url in it, I could highlight
> > it to select it, and then middle click on my mozilla
> > laucher and have it go to that url. You probably could
> > even create a launcher for something like aspell and
> > copy-paste text into it and have it spell check your
> > emails and such. Just a thought.
> > 
> 
> Interesting, but I'm not entirely convinced. It may be easier to just
> paste it in a terminal or run dialog. I'm afraid that in the panel it
> will be a bit hard to find and unintuitive.

You could run 'klipper' from KDE for this. If somebody could write a
clone for xfce it would be nice. I don't think it merits inclusion into
the base xfce distro though.

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