Hellmut Weber wrote: > For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in > Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be > considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. > I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly exists on Linux, but it seems that only a few applications are using it effectively: it works fine for 'rich' text from open office to thunderbird, and from firefox to thunderbird. It works for copying rich text with graphics and tables from firefox to openoffice. It works for copying bitmap selections from Kolour Paint to Open Office. It doesn't for the GIMP, and it doesn't work for DIA. It appears not to work from Inkscape to OpenOffice. I haven't tried AbiWord either.
I found that there is a reference to cut/paste in freedesktop.org, which ties together KDE and GNOME common functionality: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager That in turn refers to http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.6.3 So it seems that it's a case of getting Lyx to be a bit aware of how this is done and hopefully reproduce some of that functionality. I'm sure it's not simple, but maybe it's something that could get put on the list if enough people would use it. Cheers
