#5960 NORM Future : Copy button should use owner colors, paste use clipping colors

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#5960: Copy button should use owner colors, paste use clipping colors
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  Reporter:  HoboPrimate  |       Owner:  marco         
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  closed        
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
 Component:  sugar        |     Version:                
Resolution:  duplicate    |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0            |    Blocking:                
 Blockedby:               |  
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Changes (by Eben):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => duplicate


Comment:

 This is a duplicate of the pair of tickets #3692 and #3693.  There, it's
 specified that the copy button should take on the color of the activity
 itself, so clippings actually hold the identity of the activity they came
 from, rather than who made the clipping.

 In the future I would like to extend the Clipboard API to allow activities
 to specify an identify for a given clipping intelligently.  One could
 image, for instance, that in Record the colors of the selected image
 should be retained when that image is copied to the clipboard.  Similarly,
 if Write kept track of who typed what within the document, a text clipping
 could assume the colors of the author itself.

 The former of these is actually something that should be relatively easy
 to support now, and we should add as soon as possible (It should come
 along with the adjustments to the API which allow the activity to pass a
 suitable name for the clipping if it has one (a photo from the web, for
 instance, or any files from the Journal, would have a name).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5960#comment:3>
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