Bug 154979

Summary: right click context menu "clear" option clears always the entire content
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: heavytull <heavytull>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
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Description heavytull 2008-01-02 18:26:52 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

When filling a form on internet, or in kontact or whatever program requesting input you can right click on the field you are filling and click on "clear" or "Delete" to clear the content.
Usually if you do the same thing on a selected part of the text put in the field then it should clear only the selected part. In KDE it clears the entire content of the field. It is all programs that use kde shared libraries: kontact, konqueror, ...
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-12-20 01:24:37 UTC 
We have these entries in context menu:
- Cut: deletes the selection, and puts it into clipboard
- Delete: deletes the selection bypassing the clipboard
- Clear: deletes complete contents ignoring the selection