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Linux.com: Desktop Data Manager: Promising, But Not There Yet

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Bruce Byfield
Jan 7, 2007

“Being mainly a GNOME user on the desktop, I have been waiting
for two main utilities I can find in KDE: a font installer
comparable to the one in the KDE Control Center, and a multiple
item clipboard comparable to Klipper. I’m still waiting for the
font installer, but Desktop Data Manager (DDM) may eventually be a
Klipper replacement. In fact, DDM is more than that, since it also
includes a screen capture program and provisions for other plugins,
but a lack of stability and one or two key features makes it very
much a work in progress.

“Written by Lukas Einkemmer, DDM is currently at version 0.85.
However, this version number is too liberal for the actual state of
the software…”

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(Dec 20, 2006)

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