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You can include mac users too, not just windows users.  They too expect
the clipboard to behave this way.

Does the clipboard manager in kde handle anything other then text?  I
would guess it doesn't.  This is why I want this properly implemented.

As for the selection method of those who want it, if the majority of
linux users want it, then that means the majority of linux users are
technical.  And those who want linux to be made for the masses have to
realize that a badly designed feature like the selection based clipboard
will only confuse them.  It's one of the many reasons why I don't use
linux as a desktop.  Of course the moment I say this, I'm then told that
linux isn't for me.  If so, who is it for exactly?

Clearly the selection based method was only put in because you couldn't
use ctrl+c in a terminal emulator.  That's the only reason.  And because
of that, it shouldn't hold back linux from having a proper clipboard.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but don't applications that don't want the
selection based clipboard have to exclude it?  I guess that's why
firefox doesn't support it.  If there users on linux don't want it, how
many linux users actually want it?  My guess is not that many.  Just the
ones who do want it are louder then the rest.

Here is my guess on how the clipboard works on mac since it seems it has
more then one clipboard:

1.  One type for text
2.  Another type for audio
3.  Another type for video
4.  Another type for images
5.  Another type for files/directories

If it works this way, then that means you have application
interoperability.  2 completely different applications for say editing
audio, could copy sound bytes back and forth between each other.  I
don't see windows doing this.

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