Missing Clear entry in context menu for lineedit

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Tue Oct 23 11:45:53 BST 2007


On 23.10.07 12:47:14, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 11:32:14 Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  I was "shocked" to see that in KDE4 it is impossible to clear a
> > > lineedit with a single action: Clear entry in the context menu.
> > > This is a very useful feature especially on X11, you know, because
> > > the mouse selection immediately enters the selection clipboard. I
> > > heavily did the following:
> > > - select a text
> > > - right click on a lineedit, clear the text
> > > - paste the previous selection with the middle mouse button
> > >
> > > Now I have to:
> >
> > Just press the delete symbol on the right of the lineedit.
> 
> That doesn't always exist, or more exactly usually it is not there. Of 
> course the same problem is for KTextEdit.

Isn't it enabled by default? If so, whats the use-case for disabling it?

Andreas

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