https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356748
Fredy Neeser <n...@zurich.ibm.com> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Fredy Neeser <n...@zurich.ibm.com> ---
I tried out the "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection"
setting myself. I understand what it does:
If disabled, a word selected by double click (for example in Kwrite) will get
pasted by a middle mouse button click, but not by entering ctrl+v.
If enabled, a word selected by double click will still get pasted by a middle
mouse button click, but in addition also by entering ctrl+v.
However, I see two problems with enabling the "Synchronize contents of the
clipboard and the selection" feature:
Problem 1. It defeats a frequent clipboard use case, where a user does the
following:
1. Add a first word to the clipboard by selecting it with the mouse and then
doing ctrl+c or Edit > Copy via the application menu.
2. Select a second word (to be replaced) with the mouse, for example, by
double-clicking it.
3. (Try to) Replace the second word with the first word by entering ctrl+v.
But Step 3. doesn't do what it's expected to do because step 2 replaced the
front entry of the clipboard with the second word itself.
==> I have to disable "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the
selection" because the above clipboard use case is important to me.
Problem 2: The name of the feature "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and
the selection" is not self explanatory because most users know that entering
ctrl+v versus clicking the middle mouse button traditionally has different
(also complementary) effects. Moreover, the description of the feature in
https://docs.kde.org/stable4/en/kde-workspace/klipper/general-page.html
is unclear and incomplete. It should say "If this option is selected, then
the selection and the clipboard is kept the same, so that anything in the
selection is immediately available for pasting elsewhere using any method such
as entering ctrl+v or clicking the traditional middle mouse button." (The
important difference being the ability to paste using ctrl+v)
Based on a long thread on the Fedora KDE mailing list (see "klipper in Fedora
23 *argh*"), it's clear that this is not an intuitively clear or useful
feature.
A related klipper feedback: Only after reading through the above thread it
became clear to me that I can move an old klipper entry to the "head" of the
clipboard (so it can be pasted either by clicking the middle mouse button or by
entering ctrl+v) by clicking it with the left mouse button.
Can this be made more obvious to users?
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