Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.3) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux If the clipboard contains text and as such a file:/// URL like: <<< file:///home/shlomi/tmp/ >>> then pasting it using the middle mouse button, causes it to paste it without the file: part. The same thing in xterm works fine, and it also works in konsole for other kinds of URLs. This makes dealing with command line programs that require file:/// URLs (like the Subversion command-line client) very awkward.
That's a feature :-) - there are way more command line programs imo which cannot handle file:/// URLs.
If this is a feature, then it is a mis-feature, and there should be some way to turn it off. When I copy a URL, I later want this URL to be pasted to the console. When I copy a paste on the hard-disk, I later want this path to be pasted. I don't want to paste a path when pasting a URL or a URL when pasting a path. Examples for cases where not pasting the file: prefix is annoying if not destructive: 1. The svn client example. 2. Editing a file using a console text editor (like joe or vim), and wishing to paste a "file:///" URL. Not everybody are using an X editor, you know. 3. Using Lynx. 4. Invoking Mozilla or whatever from the command-line. In all of this cases this "feature" is annoying. Generally, you should not assume that you know better than the user. Please create an option to disable this annoying behaviour.
This appears to be 'fixed' in soon-to-be-KDE3.4. The file:// is pasted by using the middle-mouse button and by 'Paste menu item'
This has been 'fixed'. It works with and without klipper.