Addition to clipboard handling (bug?)

David Faure david at mandrakesoft.com
Mon Nov 4 15:07:38 GMT 2002


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On Monday 04 November 2002 15:33, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On 2002. November 04., Monday 15:45, David Faure wrote:
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> > On Monday 04 November 2002 13:41, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  Now I'm really wondering that without any Klipper running, if I select a
> > > part of a message in KMail (when reading mails, not composing)  _with_
> > > the mouse and try to paste it somewhere (eg KDevelop) with MMB then it
> > > pastes some old text from the clipboard and not the current selected from
> > > PRIMARY (as I expected). Of course, pressing CTRL-C after I select the
> > > text works. Bug or feature? I think it's a bug and it shouldn't behave
> > > this way.
> >
> > Klipper running or not doesn't matter - its configuration affects
> > KClipboard, used by all apps; so make sure it's set to "separate selection
> > and clipboard".
> 
> Really? I misunderstood and though when Klipper is not running, the "separate 
> selection and clipboard" is valid. 

Nope. As I said, the setting affects KClipboard, a class used by all kde apps.

> Ok, I will try to update (now I have stuff from oct. 29th) but I'm wondering 
> how could a khtml update help here when I saw the problem with KMail (with a 
> plain text mail)... Or does KMail uses the html rendering even in this cases?

Yes, KMail uses KHTML in the mail viewer window - even for "plain text mail".
Note how "plain text mail" gets colored quotes, and working links?

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