Please describe the problem:
Please elaborate on why the decision has been made to make GNOME lose the clipboard data when locking the screen (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522386).

It was said that it's a compromise between usability and security, and I fail to see how that is true. Because, when the screen locks, GNOME can just store the clipboard data somewhere and retrieve it again when the screen is unlocked. (One might argue the memory is readable by another user that logs in and has enough permissions to do so, but that can be said about user home directories too.)

On a laptop, one might lock the screen a lot to prevent others from using it, and it's not fun to lose clipboard data.
As an example of why one might lock the screen: at school, where other unfriendly people otherwise install scripts to have some fun and make your PC shutdown each time when you log in :)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Lock the screen.
2. Go to the toilet.
3. Come back after a few minutes.
4. Unlock it, and find out your clipboard data is gone (darn it, some important password was on there and I was about to insert it in my KeePass database but I had to go to the toilet.)


Actual results:
data loss

Expected results:
keep my data, I didn't ask the system to erase my data

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information: