Re: Lifting size limitation on X-to-GS copy & paste (was Re: [bug #4658] Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X)

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Hi Fred,

Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Hi Kazu,
>
> your proposed change overlapps with the changes I did do yesterday to 
> get copy and paste to GNUstep working with my Emacs (21.2.1) again. So 
> your patch needs a bit of rewritting to work in this changed 
> environment (and not to break my Emacs again). I would also suggest 
> not to read bigger and bigger junks of data, but to append each read 
> junk to an NSMutableData object and read the next junk while supplying 
> an offset.
>
> <snip>

OK, it's easy.  So I need to make another patch against the file in the 
current CVS, right?

> BTW. the long wainting on conversion failers has laos be removed 
> through my patch (this was not part of the original plan, but it did 
> anoy me as well). 

Great. Was the patch already committed?

> For the ignorance of the existing selection I have a strong feeling 
> that this is caused by the method [XPbOwner initialize] not being 
> called when gpbs is started. This could be changed by using different 
> code in [PasteboardServer init].

Ja, I also feel we need to establish a server-client connection as soon 
as a client begin to run.
Your idea sounds promising.  I'll take a look at the code.

Cheers,
- Kazu