Olaf  wrote 21 hours ago:
"Though - come on - it shouldn't take too many losses to remember this behaviour."

How does a normal user know why the contents of his clipboard are lost? How does this user know he has to keep the source open? We know why this happens, but people on Launchpad aren't the average user.

My dad had forgotten his password for some website, so he clicked the "I forgot my password" link retrieve a new password. He opened Evolution, copied the password, closed Evolution and tried to paste his password in Firefox. Ofcourse this didn't work, so he though he didn't click on "Copy". He opened Evoltion for a second time, made sure he copied the new password and closed Evolution to paste the password in Firefox. After several tries he gave up. He really didn't know what was going on and he was almost going nuts.

He's an average user. How will he ever know he has to keep the source open? I use Google to get to know what's going on, but the average user doesn't do this. The average user just gives up and takes the telephone to call the person who installed Ubuntu and tells him he want Windows back, because Ubuntu doesn't work.

My dad doesn't search on Google. What should he enter in Googles search bar? He doesn't know what a clipboard is, he only knows: Right click and select "Copy" to copy and select "Paste" to paste. If this doesn't work, then he gives up. He doesn't know which words to enter to find a website which explains how copy/paste works in Linux and if he does find this website, he doesn't understand it, because he doesn't know English.

Olaf  wrote 21 hours ago:
"I'm not saying it's good the way it is - but it's not the worst problem ever. And there's plenty of things with higher prority. On my personal list - remembering size and position of closed apps - so they open in the same position with the same size next time I open them - instead of "smart" placement that gnome devs prefered - would be a way higher priority in my book."

I don't know a single bug that should have a higher priority. The bug you're speaking of is, in my opinion, absolutely not a bug of high priority. The copy/paste bug causes many users to loose their work, every day. The size/position bug doesn't cause people to loose their work. Everything just works: The windows just open. The only thing you have to do, is drag and drop the window to the location to want it to be and make the window bigger or smaller. That only takes a second or maybe a few seconds, but that's all. In my opinion a low priority. The copy/paste bug causes people to loose their work. Every day people loose work, only because of this bug. A bug which causes so many people to loose their work just has to be a bug of the highest priority.

Olaf  wrote 21 hours ago:
"Google is collecting ideas every year for GSoC projects. Write a proposal and submit it. Fair chance a student will be paid by google fixing this."

Ok, were can I do this? I can't find a page to submit ideas.

pyrates  wrote 16 hours ago:
"Just an idea here, what do the rest of you think?"

Perfect.

pyrates  wrote 16 hours ago:
"Oh yeah and I almost forgot, remove the selection copy method."

True, copy/paste with the scroll wheel just doesn't work. In the past, when there was just a normal button in the middle, it worked, but nowadays mice have scroll wheels, which are too sensitive. I select some text in Firefox, try to paste it somewhere else, but everytime I press the scroll wheel to paste I scroll down a bit, so the text is pasted at the wrong place.

Saïvann Carignan  wrote 16 hours ago:
"This is a bug report, ideas are counterproductive here."

His replies describe how the bug can be fixed. His replies are usefull, which I can't say of your replies.

Actually it doesn't even matter what replies are posted. None of them help fixing this bug, none of them is productive, because developers just don't care. I've got the feeling I'm only talking to non-programmers who are affected by this bug. Once in a while when many replies are posted some moderator comes along, only to tell the replies are counterproductive and that's all. Where are the programmers? Where are the people who are able to fix bugs?

Saïvann Carignan  wrote 16 hours ago:
"As repeated before, there is already a specification for clipboard which is good for old and new clipboard methods, the bug is simply that most software does not implement it correctly so re-inventing another specification is probably not likely to bring a solution to the problem."

You really don't understand it. Read the replies. The bug isn't simply that most software doen't implement it correctly. The bug is simply that the clipboard is integrated at the wrong place. It has been said many times before.