Re: XFIXES extension proposal

Around 16 o'clock on Dec 6, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Thanks.  The performance issue is clear.  What's the semantics problem?

One obvious issue is that transfering selection owner would allow only a 
single application to track the selection contents.

Another involves targets with side effects (DELETE, INSERT_SELECTION and 
INSERT_PROPERTY).  These couldn't be correctly executed by a secondary
agent.

A third is that the external agent would have to understand the data 
format and content of every possible selection target to avoid losing the 
format of interest between two clients.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab