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by edave64 1589 days ago
The applications still need to retrieve data for the clipboard to be of any use to anyone. E.g. Editor widgets like to have a paste button. Edit > Paste is a fairly common pattern, too.

Without having the OS in charge of managing the entire UI, it's difficutlt to make that work
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dolmen 1587 days ago
OK, but pasting should be triggered by an user action.

Aside from Clipboard managers (which should be handled like on screen keyboard or other alternative input methods) I don't see a reason to allow pasting (and so reading from the clipboard) from an window that doesn't have the input focus.

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edave64 1576 days ago
That's a good step, but I think in most windowing systems, windows can just take and give focus as they please, so that alone probably wouldn't be too effective.

It's probably a possible problem to solve, but fixing stuff that wasn't build with security in mind from ground up is always tediuos.

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