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authorDavid Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>2010-03-04 17:11:33 (GMT)
committerDavid Boddie <dboddie@trolltech.com>2010-03-04 17:11:33 (GMT)
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Doc: Added a note about the lack of standard file copy/paste on X11.
Reviewed-by: Trust Me Reported-by: Pierre Rossi
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@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
store or retrieve the clipboard contents in response to timer or
non-user-input events.
+ \i Since there is no standard way to copy and paste files between
+ applications on X11, various MIME types and conventions are currently
+ in use. For instance, Nautilus expects files to be supplied with a
+ \c{x-special/gnome-copied-files} MIME type with data beginning with
+ the cut/copy action, a newline character, and the URL of the file.
+
\endlist
\section1 Notes for Mac OS X Users