ken wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
That's one of my pet peeves as well. I'm sure it's difficult to design a universal clipboard, given the large number of applications that must be dealt with but it's also one of the things that Windows buffs bring up to show how Windows is better. Of course, they can only have one item in their clip board, when not in MS Office. Another thing you can do is copy the time & date from the clock into the clipboard etc.
This can be done in Linux as well. (Maybe that's what you meant, I'm not sure.)
In Linux, the clipboard is a function of X so, theoretically, any GUI app can read/write on it.
My point is that the mulitple copy clipboard is availble throughout the desktop, at least in KDE, whereas in Windows, it only in Office. I find it very useful.