Comment 209 for bug 11334

Sandro Mani wrote on 2010-02-21:
"The person(s) who originally implemented the clipboard may very well not be working on Xorg anymore, hence someone would have to read through the whole unfamiliar code and understand it, just like we"

Then there's something fundamentally wrong at Xorg. It doesn't matter who wrote the code. If Xorg releases some software, they're responsible for maintaining the code and they're the ones who need to ensure everything is properly documented, so it's possible to make some changes to the existing code.

Sandro Mani wrote on 2010-02-21:
"the chances of success are considerably higher if the 52 people here would spend time researching instead of writing long, heated comments."

Researching? That's work for developers, not for users. I've said it so many times, but how can Linux ever get a market share of more than 1% if they expect the users do everything themselves?
Step 1: User encounters a bug;
Step 2: User tells developers he found a bug and gives some information like when does he encounter this bug and what did he expect to happen;
Step 3: Developer researches how to fix this bug;
Step 4: Developer fixes bug;
Step 5: Developer releases an update.

Unfortuantely this doesn't work with open source software, because the developer says: "I don't give a fuck about that bugs. Fix it yourself."

Users don't want to do research, they don't want to create Wiki-pages, they don't want to learn how to program. They just want to tell the developer about the bug he encountered and that's all. They encounter this bug, because of the errors of the developer, so he's the one who needs to fix the bugs he created himself.

Why does the term "open source developer" mean "someone who who does what he wants to do, but doesn't listen to the comments of the users"? If you only implement features you like yourself and only fix bugs you care about, then don't release your software to the public, but keep it just for your own use. If you also want other people to use your software, then listen to them and implement the features they want and fix the bugs they want to be fixed. If you don't want to do this, then just dont release your software to the public, because users expect software to work. They just want to use the software, they don't want to help develop the software.

LimCore wrote 4 hours ago:
"Just install Percellite by default (MIR) and we are done! No need for too much talking, lets do it ;)"

It has been said so many times: this is not a solution. These kind of applications are a bandaid solution to get some half baked clipboard implementation which crashes sometimes and doesn't even support all kinds of file types. Besides that, installing such application by default will cause the developers to think: "They've got their clipboard implementation, so there's no need to deliver a real fix." We need the clipboard to be implemented where it needs to be implemented.