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General: use dedicated clipboard mime type

Rastersoft requested to merge use_dedicate_clipboard_mime_type_with_compatibility into master

Cut/copy/paste has originally been implemented (ab)using the plain text clipboard because that's the only data type St.Clipboard supported.

This results in implementation details leaking into the text clipboard, and has required nautilus to regress in order to interoperate with us.

But now St.Clipboard can handle any type of clipboard content, so nautilus has restored its clipboard mime type and we shall port to it.

This MR is based on !186, but takes into account the Gnome Shell version to keep compatibility.

Needed for GNOME/nautilus#634 (closed)

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