Bug 152039

Summary:	whish: make klipper to save clipboard history instantly or periodically
Product:	[Unmaintained] klipper	Reporter:	Alexander Yustus <nofnick>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Esben Mose Hansen <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee, benderamp, roland.edv
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	4.9.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Alexander Yustus 2007-11-09 09:02:20 UTC

Version:           0.9.7 (using KDE KDE 3.5.8KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMsSuSE RPMs

I run my box for weeks without restart, and there are power shutdowns at my office periodically, so the option "save clipboard contents on exit" is not good enough in my case.

I suggest to trasform this option to "save clipboard content" which mean incrementally save every new history item.

I believe this is not so hard for the file system ;)


PS: thanks a lot for the great tool, history incremental search rulez!


Alexander.

Comment 1 Roland Eggner 2008-05-28 16:46:38 UTC

Partially related to this issue:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162749
A fix to #162749 would solve #152039 too:  imagine a simple crontab entry.

Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-24 18:10:04 UTC

*** Bug 264283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-24 18:32:05 UTC

I think the use cases in this report and bug 264283 are both valid. But they are really rare cases. For most users, saving history into disk periodically or ASAP would be more annoying than helpful. I can imagine they will complain: "Why does KDE(Klipper) kees accessing my disk for no reason?". So I don't think it is a good idea for Klipper to provided the requested feature itself.

As Roland suggested in comment #1, providing the related dbus method could be an acceptable solution. 

The good news is I find it easy to add such dbus method :)

Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2012-01-15 11:37:59 UTC

See https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103547/ for the simple patch.

Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2012-02-05 11:46:42 UTC

Now that Bug 162749 will be fixed in KDE SC 4.9, I think this report can also be closed now.