Re: NSPasteboard on X, what to do?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

>     Sender: dennis@made-it.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:30:13 +0100
> From: Dennis Leeuw <dleeuw@made-it.com>
> 
> Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:12:03 +0100
> > > From: Dennis Leeuw <dleeuw@made-it.com>
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > The machine, and I talk about the hardware (harddisk), that has a GNUstep
> > > app that you want to run also has gpbs installed. If that is started at 
> > > boot
> > > time, we have a gpbs server running that is machine dependend.
> > >
> > > If every user get's a temporary database in his/her home dirctory that
> > > records all cuts and the gpbs server it is stored on, you could then paste
> > > it in every app the user is running.
> > >
> > > Downside is the network traffic...
> > >
> > > Dennis
> >
> > Ok. Let's suppose that you have the following configuration:
> >
> >     hostA1 10.0.0.1 running gs App1 and gpbs server1
> >     with DISPLAY=10.0.0.2:0.0
> >
> >     hostA2 212.87.205.57 running gs App2 and gpbs server2
> >     with DISPLAY=212.87.205.58:0.0
> >
> >     and
> >
> >     hostX3 with two ethernet cards eth0 212.87.205.58
> >                                and eth1 10.0.0.2
> >            running a X server, display :0, screen :0.0
> >
> > Now, on hostX3, you copy data from a window of App1, and paste it to a
> > window of App2.
> >
> > Please explain  how this  can be  done by your  gpbs server1  and gpbs
> > server2. Remember that gpbs server1 is  on a host on a private network
> > and that no  routing exists between 10.0.0.0/8 and  the Internet where
> > gpbs server2 is.
> 
> If hostX3 knows about routing then the problem is solved, but I
> guess that is not what you are aiming at.  You mean if hostX3
> doesn't know about routing... well I guess you are stuck and should
> be.  The reason why hostX3 doesn't know about routing is probably a
> security issue. So if you could bypass the security AS A NORMAL USER
> by copy and paste, well...  (fill in yourself)

Well,  in that  case,  users  will see  that  they can  copy-and-paste
between  any  X application  (Gnome,  KDE,  others),  and not  between
GNUstep applications,  and they will conclude  rightfully that GNUstep
is not up to its promise.



Anyway, even  with all three hosts on  the same LAN, I'd  like to hear
your idea of the sequence  of events when copy-and-paste is done. Note
that you're  involving two gpbs servers, and  the GNUstep applications
don't know each other. Then?


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