Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does it take so long until Gimp finds out that no image is on the clipboard

Liam R E Quin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 19:17 +0200, Adalbert Hanßen wrote:
> 
> Whatreally annoys me isthat it takes almost a minute for Gimp to tell
> me that there is no image on the clipboard.

Is this under GNOME 3? or KDE/plasma? Do you have a clipboard manager
running?


> 
> * Why does it take that long?
It doesn't, here.

> * What can developers do to speed up the error message in such a
> situation?
Fix the bug, but that involves understanding whenand why it happens and
what is causing it.

> 
> * By the way: Is there a method such that one can see what type of
> data is on the clipboard: text/image/file designation/spreadsheet
> data, ...?

Again, depends on desktop enviroment and whether wayland or X11, but
yes, there are clipboard managers that can show it. KDE has one running
all the time i think.


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