From 85655807c660b9252795648384b8f629ce533c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Boddie Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:11:33 +0100 Subject: Doc: Added a note about the lack of standard file copy/paste on X11. Reviewed-by: Trust Me Reported-by: Pierre Rossi --- src/gui/kernel/qclipboard.cpp | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qclipboard.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qclipboard.cpp index a59bb98..f7c0b6e 100644 --- a/src/gui/kernel/qclipboard.cpp +++ b/src/gui/kernel/qclipboard.cpp @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12