Bug 85580 - Klipper enhancement. Keyboard access to history
Summary: Klipper enhancement. Keyboard access to history
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: klipper
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Flöser
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Reported: 2004-07-20 20:41 UTC by Pandu Rao
Modified: 2015-10-30 15:29 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Pandu Rao 2004-07-20 20:41:26 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

While the C+A+V key combination is very handy, I always have to reach for the mouse to quickly select an item from my very long clipboard history.

I suggest that the history items be indexed by number. e.g 0 for first item, 1 for second item and so on. So C+A+V, followed by 5 will select history item at index 5.

e.g.
__klipper_menu__
[00] hello world
[01] world champ
[02] kung  foo..
[03] foo   bar..
-----------------
.................
__klipper_menu__

-Pandu
Comment 1 Esben Mose Hansen 2004-11-20 21:35:37 UTC
Does the new search capabilities solve this? (It has only been in CVS for a few hours).
Comment 2 Angel Blue01 2009-03-06 18:01:35 UTC
Even in Klipper in 9.7, the only way to select something from the list is to ctrl+alt+v and use the down arrow key.
Comment 3 g111 2009-06-07 16:28:33 UTC
You can just type some text to filter the list. With the shorter list you have quicker access to what you want by cursor-down. IMHO this is more handy than a numbering before each entry.
Comment 4 frank 2010-09-05 14:48:38 UTC
hi, it's just me or ctrl+alt+v doesn't work anymore after upgrading to kde 4.5.1?
Comment 5 frank 2010-09-05 15:12:00 UTC
sorry, i had to post on https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244620
i didn't find it cause it was wrongly closed...
Comment 6 g111 2011-04-09 22:16:36 UTC
As there was no response since my comment #3 I think, this bug can be closed with "wont fix", can't it?

Even if someone is willing to implement this, it would conflict with the current way of filtering the list by typing some text. As you can set the klipper history to more than 100 entries you had to use three numbers to identify a row. Also you do not see the numbers for the next pages than the first. So IMHO this idea of numbering the entries is conceptual problematic. What do you think?
Comment 7 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-31 06:34:09 UTC
Well, I would suggest not to implement this feature because it is basically in conflict with existing searching feature and does not scale well.

However, it is really handy when you imagine it. So I think maybe we can make a comprise. Maybe we can only provide the index for the first nine(or five) items, and pressing Alt+[1-9] will select the corresponding item. That would make it a nice complement of the searching feature. The down side is it will cause some visual inconsistency since only the first items have index.

Whatever, the existing searching feature should not be influenced.
Comment 8 Joon Ro 2013-08-05 15:49:06 UTC
I would love this feature. For me, in most cases, I am looking for something within top 5 - something I recently copied. I rarely go more than 10 items in the list, and having the number shortcut would be great.
Comment 9 Martin Flöser 2015-10-30 15:29:18 UTC
I think the search functionality is a good enough solution for this.