axxackall's Journal: multimedia X11 clipboard

I thouth to answer on this comment, but then decided that it would be too offopic. This subject is too big. I'd better save it for bigger battles.

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As a Linux user I've been sufferring from being stuck to Xfree86 for too many long years. That's why my previous irony was so sad.

In 1994 my Linux desktop was more advanced than then-time win-3.x. Since then Windows has got DCOM, NT-microkernel and Active Directories. The system design is unsecure per se, but the system is usable.

In XFree86 I still cannot copy images or rich text formatting through the clipboard, while most of Xfree86 progress went to catch new hardware after it's been out there for windows already. I guess Xfree86 team stuck to bitmap processing: vector graphics is still experimental, while the idea of multimedia is forbidden in Xfree86 team whatsoever - otherwise why multimedia objects are not in clipboard and why Xfree86 has nothing to do with sound?

Speaking about sound: in MacOS my sound is shisfted through stereo channels depends on the place on the screen I click or drag. That's because sound and graphics are processed together in MacOS. Why this idea had never hit brains of Xfree86 developers? If it would then they would defenitely would not forbidden sound in Xfree86.

It's sad for me to realize that a good system design is less important than a good financial investment. But I still applaud to Mozilla, Linux Kernel, Python, Apache, Zope, Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Jabber and many other OSS teams for their underpaid efforts to make a difference.