[Bug 109402] i want to be able to copy text from any part of the screen, even from menus/images or anything that has any sort of text written on it.

[Matthew Woehlke]

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------- Additional Comments From mw_triad users sourceforge net  2008-05-27 17:52 -------
What I meant was, I'm not sure it will be possible to implement this as stated (i.e. 'press a magic key and be able to select any text') unless Qt does most of the work. In which case, it really isn't a KDE feature request, but a Qt feature request (KDE will likely want a QSettings front-end to change the key, but that would be about the extent of what KDE would do).

Alternatively, there might be a way to do something like this using screen-reader hooks (note: I know basically nada about screen readers, but I don't think it's OCR-based), but then the closest you would get is that pressing the key takes a "snapshot" of the current window or desktop, and then you can select text.

Hmm... actually, you *might* be able to do something with walking the widget tree, but Qt could do that just as easily, and I maintain that I think if we take any approach like this, it should go in Qt proper so that all Qt4 applications will benefit, and not just KDE applications.

OTOH, a text-mode snapshot leveraging screen-reader interfaces might also work with GTK applications, which is a point in favor of that method.