clipboard manager should be able to convert text format
Submitted by Jon Kåre Hellan
Assigned to Owen Taylor @otaylor
Link to original bug (#496991)
Description
If the clipboard manager holds a UTF8_STRING clipboard, it should be able to export STRING, TEXT and COMPOUND_TEXT as well. In this way, clients who call gtk_clipboard_store are relieved of having to render the clipboard in the legacy text formats.
If e.g. a gnumeric spreadsheet is large, there is a significant amount of text which now has to be passed many times from gnumeric to the clipboard manager.