Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (258 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 16 August 2010 15:13:46 Jon Nelson wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to understand the issue and failing (have used Klipper for the
> > > last 10 years).  It seems to me that the act of selecting something
> > > prior to "copy" will necessarily set Selection before "copy" sets
> > > Clipboard.
> > >
> > > Could you explain it as a series of steps to reproduce with actual vs
> > > expected (4.4.5) behaviour?
> >
> > Yes. Sorry for the delay!
> >
> > I'm not ruling out other issues, but one that is very easy to replicate is
> > this:
> >
> > 1. open konsole and a web browser
> > 2. display in konsole some text that includes a URL
> > 3. when you move the mouse over the URL, it becomes underlined.
> > 4. while the URL is underlined, right-click and choose "Copy Link Address"
> >
> > This is where things differ. Previously, "Copy Link Address" would
> > copy to both the clipboard and the X selection. Now it only copies to
> > the clipboard.
..
> I've tried to reproduce this with a clean 11.3 in a VM and can't.  I prepended
>
> 0) quit Klipper
>
> to your steps.
>
> I took care to right click the underlined URL rather than drag-selecting it,
> of course.  I had a look at the Klipper source code to make sure that it did
> not recently change how it actually puts the text into the clipboard, and
> since 2007 it has always just called QClipboard::setText(url); without the
> optional mode argument that controls which buffer is used, so it goes only to
> Clipboard.  Since we are using the same Qt version as 11.3, that rules out a
> bugfix in QClipboard.
>
> What is interesting is that I tried the same RMB on URL, Copy Link Location in
> Konqueror, and that *does* set both Selection and Clipboard explicitly, see
> lines 814 and 818 here:

What does RMB stand for?

> http://lxr.kde.org/source/KDE/kdelibs/khtml/khtml_ext.cpp?v=4.4-branch
>
> As you can see that's the KDE 4.4. code (and the two calls are there since
> much longer), so am I actually right in comparing 4.4 and 4.5's behaviour?

I think so.  Does konsole use the khtml copy link functionality?

All I know is that Copy Link from konsole changed behavior between
4.4.whatever and 4.5.0.  The new behavior is Copy Link *only* copies
to the X Clipboard, not the X Selection. Previously, it copied to
both.


-- 
Jon
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