Comment 105 for bug 11334

thank you for reclassifying bug # 417758.

IMHO it should not have taken hours of correspondence culminating in a
tantrum to get the matter attended to, but is appreciated none the less.

also IMHO...

a distribution targeting ordinary users would benefit from a consistent
stream of feedback from such users.

the current structure and atmosphere of the bug reporting system(s) are not
very inviting to ordinary users. this may be necessary as bugs reports
must be vetted and classified before bugs can be fixed.

if the experience of filing bug reports cannot be improved, perhaps it's
time to create a problem reporting system for ordinary, non-technical users
that is friendlier and less rigorous.

BTW:

if i have thoughts on the future of the clip board where would i send them
or post them?

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Eric Fluger

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Michael Nagel wrote:

> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:01:20 -0000
> From: Michael Nagel <email address hidden>
> Reply-To: Bug 11334 <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 11334] Re: Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed
> before the paste
>
> ericf: if you do not close the source of the of the copy before pasting
> -- and nevertheless experience problems -- your problem is different from
> the bug discussed here and should be processed separately. i mark it as
> no longer being a duplicate of this bug.
>
> --
> Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> This bug is an Epic Fail, because it's 2009 and still we do not *fully* support trivial things like copy/paste.
>
> Fortunately this works well in KDE.
>
> This -could- be the underlying cause of bug #7986.
> This is a general issue that seems to be independant of any individual program.
> Pick any text field that supports copying, copy some text. Paste into any other
> text field. It works. Close the source window or program. Paste now does
> nothing. The example I just verified this with is gedit to gedit. Also occurs
> with openoffice to gedit.
>
> In some cases, like OpenOffice and Firefox, simply closing the source window
> won't cause the problem. It only happens if the entire program is closed down.
>
> When I copy (Ctrl + C, or right click and "Copy") text from somewhere and after that close the program where it is, the clipboard gets empty.
>
> This bug will happen in any application that doesn't comply with the clipboard specification from FreeDesktop.
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager
>
> Actual Status :
>
> Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird (Xulrunner) : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311340
> OpenOffice : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=63092
> Evolution : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258374
> GIMP | GTK+ : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510230
> Gnucash : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510205
>
> Pidgin : Fixed
> Inkscape : Fixed
> Gedit : Fixed
> Most Gnome apps, Fixed
>
>