I started this project much earlier than stardance (it’s years old by now), but it’s only recently become usable. think of this devlog as motivation/background
the main goal was to make a clipboard manager that could

1. persist clipboard selections after applications closed
2. have configurable mimetype selection

Here’s something interesting you might not have known about linux clipboards (both wayland and x11): the data doesn’t actually exist until a client requests it. This is how applications like firefox offer 20 morbillion image types; it’s converting the image on-the-fly. Given this, it’s impractical to request every offered type, so most clipboard managers I’ve found solve this by giving up and only doing text or text+hardcoded image mimetypes. zzzclip has a probably-overcomplicated system that lets you configure which mimetypes it’ll remember and priority between mimetypes (plus regexes).
Another feature I want to add eventually is a FUSE clipboard system where it can make a “fake” (meaning it’s backed by the program, not something on disk) file holding the current clipboard contents.

(as for what these 17 hours are actually for: it’s just adding config parsing and a load of cleanups.)