Comment 2 for bug 503401

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 503401] Re: clipboard contents cleared when qbzr dialog closed

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> This is problem in Qt/PyQt4 itself. In version PyQt4 4.3.1 it worked as
> expected. Starting from PyQt version 4.4 and higher it seems Qt/PyQt
> clears the clipboard on exit. I have no idea what we can do about that.
>
> ** Changed in: qbzr
> Status: New => Won't Fix
>

I believe this is a Qt-ism. I believe it is because it waits to actually
fully populate the clipboard for when the target is determined. So that
it can chose as to whether to do a rich copy (html) or a dumb one (plain
text).

John
=:->

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