How should the clipboard work? (or: why doesn't it work?)

[Brian Mury]

On Sat, 2004-18-12 at 13:11 +0100, nodata wrote:
> 1. Load gedit, type some text.
> 2. Copy or cut the text to the clipboard and close gedit.
> 
> Question: From the desktop users point of view, should the text still be
> available?

I think so, and I find it really annoying that it isn't.