Comment 5 for bug 404826

Bundini: First of all, that is not the proper way to comment a bug. If you want to discuss if it's crappy or not, please use a forum. A bug tracker isn't a place for oppinions, it's a place to add information about the bug in order to fix it.

About the bug itself, I think it's invalid. It's not inkscape's problem at all. The data copied are vectors, and they're copied properly.
The problem is in GIMP (and I wouldn't say it's a problem, but a feature not implemented).
When you copy from illustrator to photoshop, for instance, Photoshop has a feature that detects if you're pasting vectors or bitmaps and offers choices. You can import them as vectorial objects or rasterized them to pixels.
I can't see much trouble in using alt+b then right click and "edit externally". I wouldn't catalog that as a jarring speedbump in the user experience.
I think this bug should be closed as invalid, or at least turning into a feature, something like "copy to clipboard as bitmap". The problem seems to be in the target applications that cannot manage the copied SVG data well, not in inkscape.