XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 2/15/2026 3:11 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Feel free to reproduce my tests, in a suitable way, on a pure-X11,   
   > Wayland-free system, then, just to see what “weird shit” means.   
   >   
      
   There are WAY WAY too may formats on that clipboard!   
      
   What do your taste buds tell you ?   
      
   For such a mess, I would need a clipboard manager with   
   visualizations for each format, to see how such a   
   mess is even possible or realistic.   
      
   Some of those, look like there is a root format offered   
   by the source tool, and Wayland has "offered automatic translations"   
   of some of them, creating a lot more formats than the source   
   program created in the first place. Which is clever but   
   dishonest. The wl_paste tool should label some of them as   
   "original" and the rest as "derivative". Then I would not   
   find that output so offensive.   
      
   Maybe some of them are Wayland and some are XWayland ?   
   But the Chrome/Chromium should only be responding   
   to one standard at a time.   
      
   If we're to have clipboard management, there should be   
   a way to tell exactly what the source program offered   
   and no more. It's a way of verifying that the source   
   program is working properly.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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