why does MX-17 use a different clipboard application? [solved]

[lonesomepoint]

I tried MX-17 for the first time today, and was puzzled to see that some of my usual keyboard shortcuts activated clipboard functions, blocking them from doing what I wanted. Eventually, I determined this was because the clipboard in MX-17 reserves those and other keyboard shortcuts. Fine--I just deleted all the clipboard's shortcuts; problem solved.

I just didn't understand why the clipboard does this, until I looked a bit further and noticed the MX-17 team has replaced the old MX clipboard (what was it called--Clipman?) with a different one, Clipit. It doesn't matter to me, since I already solved the nuisance of it pre-empting my keyboard shortcuts; but I'm curious--why did the designers decide to replace Clipman? It seemed to work fine. (Although so does Clipit, once I deleted the keyboard shortcuts. It's fine, and I don't suppose I'll switch back to Clipman.)

[dolphin_oracle]

clipman had some sort of problem with the notification area for some users, including dev team members, where it would either vanish from the notification area or pick up a different icon.