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diff --git a/src/ui/clipboard.cpp b/src/ui/clipboard.cpp
index 7e41006be..af0ec0129 100644
--- a/src/ui/clipboard.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/clipboard.cpp
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ private:
void _setClipboardColor(guint32);
void _userWarn(SPDesktop *, char const *);
+ void _inkscape_wait_for_targets(std::list<Glib::ustring> &);
+
// private properites
SPDocument *_clipboardSPDoc; ///< Document that stores the clipboard until someone requests it
Inkscape::XML::Node *_defs; ///< Reference to the clipboard document's defs node
@@ -1226,7 +1228,9 @@ Geom::Scale ClipboardManagerImpl::_getScale(Geom::Point const &min, Geom::Point
*/
Glib::ustring ClipboardManagerImpl::_getBestTarget()
{
- std::list<Glib::ustring> targets = _clipboard->wait_for_targets();
+ // GTKmm's wait_for_targets() is broken, see the comment in _inkscape_wait_for_targets()
+ std::list<Glib::ustring> targets; // = _clipboard->wait_for_targets();
+ _inkscape_wait_for_targets(targets);
// clipboard target debugging snippet
/*
@@ -1365,6 +1369,35 @@ void ClipboardManagerImpl::_userWarn(SPDesktop *desktop, char const *msg)
}
+// GTKMM's clipboard::wait_for_targets is buggy and might return bogus, see
+//
+// https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/296778
+// http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-June/msg00062.html
+//
+// for details. Until this has been fixed upstream we will use our own implementation
+// of this method, as copied from /gtkmm-2.16.0/gtk/gtkmm/clipboard.cc.
+void ClipboardManagerImpl::_inkscape_wait_for_targets(std::list<Glib::ustring> &listTargets)
+{
+ //Get a newly-allocated array of atoms:
+ GdkAtom* targets = 0;
+ gint n_targets = 0;
+ gboolean test = gtk_clipboard_wait_for_targets( gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD), &targets, &n_targets );
+ if(!test)
+ n_targets = 0; //otherwise it will be -1.
+
+ //Add the targets to the C++ container:
+ for(int i = 0; i < n_targets; i++)
+ {
+ //Convert the atom to a string:
+ gchar* const atom_name = gdk_atom_name(targets[i]);
+
+ Glib::ustring target;
+ if(atom_name)
+ target = Glib::ScopedPtr<char>(atom_name).get(); //This frees the gchar*.
+
+ listTargets.push_back(target);
+ }
+}
/* #######################################
ClipboardManager class