Re: [bug #4658] Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

nobody@savannah.gnu.org wrote:

> Summary: Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X
>
> Original Submission: 1. It is not possible to copy from GNUstep and 
> paste in X app strings which contain non latin-1 characters.

Did you really copy a region you selected with a GNUstep app before 
trying to paste
it on an X app?  Only specifying a selected region (i.e., making the 
background gray)
is not sufficient for paste; before trying it, you need to explicitly 
invoke the GNUstep
app's 'copy' once after you specify a selected region.  Please make sure 
the GNUstep's
copy and paste operation differs from that of ordinary X apps.  You 
can't do copy and
paste even for latin-1 characters unless you do copy before paste.

> 2. It is not possible to copy from X and paste in GNUstep strings 
> longer than 1024 characters.

It seems that this is due not to gpbs, but to the implementation of 
NSSerializer.
In the method + (NSData*) serializePropertyList: (id)propertyList, we have

  d = [NSMutableData dataWithCapacity: 1024];

I hope the limitation will be lifted once someone changes the magic 
number 1024,
though I'm not sure if it is possible. 

> 3. GNUstep apps used to freeze for a while (waiting for X selection) 
> when pasting from X apps.

Copy and paste is a costly operation.

> 4. Sometimes it works, after i do lots of various cut&pastes.

I feel the comment on 1 also applies here.

| I'm using CVS from 6 Aug 2003 and I am experiencing this only for 
short time.

Probably, you got accustomed to the GNUstep's copy and paste operation...