#5753 HIGH Never A: A shared copyText() method should exist in the common Sugar API.

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#5753: A shared copyText() method should exist in the common Sugar API.
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 Reporter:  legutierr  |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar      |     Version:  Build 650     
 Keywords:  Update 1?  |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:             |   Blockedby:                
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 There are a number of bugs filed relating to the fact that copying text
 out of certain activities breaks the clipboard in some way (Browse: #5664
 #2747; XoIRC/Logviewer: #5389; Journal: #5611; Write: #5752).  As I
 understand it, solutions already proposed in some of those cases involve
 fixing code directly in the originating activity, or innvolve modifying
 mime-type definitions to accommodate the activity's specific
 implementation; but considering that this error seems already to have been
 made multiple times by multiple developers, without a system-wide fix, the
 error will probably be made again in new activities.

 Although I haven't seen the code, this behavior ''seems'' to point to the
 fact that each activity implements its own version of "copy text", passing
 custom data to the clipboard, including mime types and the like.  In cases
 where an activity doesn't do this correctly, the clipboard breaks (and the
 Journal as well in some cases).

 Although the clipboard should be able to hold custom data and dynamically-
 defined mime-types, there is no reason for the clipboard to treat
 different text clippings differently just because they come from different
 activities.  If there is any type of data that should be treated the same
 by everything, it is text!

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