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LimCore wrote on 2010-02-09:
"This is crazy, this bug has 45 people that take time to go to LP and click affects-me-too,
it has a dozen of duplicates,
it is one of most reported bug I seen, and yet it is just Wishlist priority?!
Ubuntu fails to provide most basic functionality expected from a desktop since windows 3.11...
For 5 years now! Wow."
Yes, it really is an epic fail. :D Those developers really don't get it.
Endolith wrote on 2010-02-09:
"Isn't it trivially fixable by installing one of the workarounds by default?"
No, it isn't. How many times do I have to say it isn't? Those applications are NOT a fix. They're a workaround which somtimes works. Those applications also cause a lot of problems. I've tested all of them and there's none which really works. It just needs to be fixed in X, so there's a system wide clipboard which works for EVERY APPLICATION in EVERY DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT in EVERY DISTRIBUTION and for EVERY KIND OF CONTENT (like text, images, sound, a part of a video). Not like this will ever happen, because developers are as cocky and stubborn as can be, so don't a working clipboard in Linux in the upcoming 15 years.
You want an operating system which has a clipboard (one of the most basic features of an operating system)? Then just don't use Linux, because Linux doesn't have a working clipboard. We all know a working clipboard is something every operating system has to support. Every serious operating system in the world has one since it's first release, because a clipboard is so important. Everyone knows it's completely ridiculous to release an operating system without a working clipboard. I think developers of Linux don't cosider Linux a serious operating system, because after all those years it still doesn't work in Linux.
Look at this screenshot:
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That's Mac OS as it was released in 1984. Let me repeat that: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR!!! What do you see? Do you see the "Clipboard File"? Now it's 2010. Yes, it's TWO THOUSAND AND TEN!!! That's TWENTY SIX years later and Linux still doesn't have a clipboard which works.
Really, what an epic fail! Developers, what's your goal? You want Linux to be only used in CLI mode on servers or do you want Linux to also be used on desktops? If you want Linux to be not only used in CLI mode, then create something usefull, instead of this kind of amateuristic piece of... [insert some word or words you like to use when swearing].
Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote on 2010-02-10:
"Could someone tell us when this bug will be fixed?"
What do you think of the answer: "Never" of "Certainly not before 2025"? In all those years Linux've never had a working clipboard, so don't think there'll a working clipboard in the near future.
Jackflap wrote on 2010-02-10:
"Well it's simple, in the same way that the cost of you learning how to program, studying the spec and implementing a fix isn't worth your time (or money), then for exactly the same reason no other dev has done it either.
Until someone has the necessary experience, time, or motivation to fix this, it will just sit waiting. The occasional reminder on the bug report is fine, but please, the best thing you can do is start learning to code and maybe a few years down the line you'll be able to write the patch yourself if it's so important to you."
There we go again. Why do users of Linux always have to do everything on their own. We are users, no developers. If they develop something, then do the job right and if you didn't do the job right, then fix it! Don't develop something and then tell your users you don't have the motivation to fix it and tell them: "Just fix it yourself."
That's the main reason why Linux sucks. No commercial developer would ever come away with such kind of attitude. I've stopped using Linux, only because of this. There are so many bugs which still aren't fixed, even though they exist for years. What's the progress of these bugs? Zero! Really, in all those years there hasn't been any progress at all and the only replies you get are: "Fix it yourself!" What did I do? I sold my PC's and laptop and bought iMacs and a MacBook. Now everything just works. Apple is a commercial company. They can't afford such kind of attitude, because they'll loose customers. Why do you think Linux never gets more than 1% market share? Because Linux on the desktop is an epic fail and if the developers don't change their attitude and start fixing those old bugs, Linux will always be an epic fail on the desktop!