[Gtk-sharp-list] Rewriting Clipboard Manager in .NET

[Philip Van Hoof]

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Hi there,

Last year I wrote an application called GNOME Clipboard Manager. This
application was not a "huge" success in popularity but still pretty much
people use it compared to the amount of advertising I did for it :).

Today I got some critisism for one of the OSNews.Com article writers.
Cause of that I decided to take a look at that old dusty code of
Clipboard Manager. After a few minutes looking at it and one year
programming in .NET I concluded that I'd better rewrite the application
in .NET using Gtk-Sharp than trying to fix what has now become a port of
a GNOME 1.x application to GNOME 2.x (with the GtkClipboard object) to a
HIGified GNOME 2.x application (well.. not really; humble..)

Keeping in mind that this port will probably be less work than what I
had to do to get Clipboard Manager a working application in C .. I still
think that it will be, for me, a major amount of work to get everything
done.


So.. 

If there are people who would like to learn Gtk-Sharp and/or who would
like to help me with rewriting this application .. please do contact me.

This is how far I am at this moment:

- To create a Assembly "ClipboardManager.Library"
  - ClipboardItem class
     - SelectionDataCollection
  - ...

- To create a ClipboardManager deamon
  - ClipboardManager class
    - DefaultClipboardManager class (unfinished)
    - PrimaryClipboardManager class (not started)
 - Deamon class
   - Main function (unfinished)

My idea's are

- To add a Editor-GUI that will give the user the extra feature to
  "Edit" collected items in the Deamon

- To or add a PanelApplet or a StatusDock (like Klipper)

- To make Clipboard Management network transparant

- Save/Restore Clipboard Management sessions to/from XML files

   - Save between gnome-sessions (of course)

- Adding a plugin to allow a user to edit the targets in the
  ClipboardItem (but! detach it from the main-Editor component. The
  current gcm got bloated cause of this feature)





So thats not much yet :) which means that you will not be "joining" my
project but in stead "helping me" create it (being co-author).



-- 
Philip Van Hoof, Software Developer @ Cronos
home: me at freax dot org
work: Philip dot VanHoof at cronos dot be
http://www.freax.be, http://www.freax.eu.org

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