gEDA-user: [RFC 5/6] Use of X server clipboard

[Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently, if you 'copy' in gschem and 'paste' in another program,
nothing useful happens. We should ideally try and use the X
clipboard.

I propose that we enable (in the following order):

1. Copy in gschem, paste in text editor. Should it paste schematic file
   source code equivalent to copied elements?

2. Copy in gschem, paste in another instance of gschem. How should it
   handle differences in component library settings between programs?

3. Copy in gschem, paste in <program that understands images>. Should
   paste an image representation of the copied elements.

I have in mind the use case of "I want this circuit in my OpenOffice
presentation, let's try the obvious thing to get it there."

                                        Peter

-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd


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