Bug 157943

Summary:	can't select&paste from konsole to thunderbird using X clipboard
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Thomas Meyer 2008-02-16 23:11:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          Gentoo 4.2.2 p1.0 
OS:                Linux

mark a text in konsole and try to paste it via middle mouse button in a new email in thunderbird doesn't work for me under kde4.

Cutting&pasting from konsole (mark text and paste it via pressing the middle mouse button) in konqueror does work!

I'm not running klipper.

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2008-02-17 03:08:49 UTC

1.  Can you copy and paste text from Konsole to Thunderbird (select, then Edit -> Copy in Konsole and Edit -> Paste in Thunderbird)

2.  Can you copy and paste text from Konsole to non-KDE 4 applications other than Thunderbird?

Comment 2 Thomas Meyer 2008-02-19 07:17:58 UTC

> 1.  Can you copy and paste text from Konsole to Thunderbird (select, then Edit -> Copy in Konsole and Edit -> Paste in Thunderbird)

Yes. This works.

> 2.  Can you copy and paste text from Konsole to non-KDE 4 applications other than Thunderbird?
Yes.

and here comes the strange thing:
I can "X copy&paste" (what's the correct wording?) from konsole to a new mail in thunderbird to
a.) the adress line
b.) the title line
but not to the text body of a new mail!

How is that possible?

Comment 3 Robert Knight 2008-02-19 18:57:00 UTC

> I can "X copy&paste" (what's the correct wording?)

When you mark text using the mouse that is "creating a selection".  This bug is about selecting & paste rather than copy & paste, which is a little odd.

> but not to the text body of a new mail!
> How is that possible? 

The text body is probably a different type of control which supports more formats than the single-line entries.  Can you try selecting and pasting text from Konsole into other text controls (single-line ones and multi-line ones) elsewhere in Thunderbird and see if this only happens with multi-line controls?

> 2.  Can you copy and paste text from Konsole to non-KDE 4 applications
> other than Thunderbird?
> Yes.

Does this apply to Firefox as well?  Since it shares the same user interface toolkit.

Comment 4 Thomas Meyer 2008-02-19 20:36:41 UTC

> When you mark text using the mouse that is "creating a selection".  This bug is about selecting & paste rather than copy & paste, which is a little odd. 
Yes, indeed. Very odd.

> > but not to the text body of a new mail! 
> > How is that possible? 
  
> The text body is probably a different type of control which supports more formats than the single-line entries.  Can you try selecting and pasting text from Konsole into other text controls (single-line ones and multi-line ones) elsewhere in Thunderbird and see if this only happens with multi-line controls? 
Selection&Paste seems to work everywhere in Thunderbird, besides the text body.

> Does this apply to Firefox as well?  Since it shares the same user interface toolkit. 
Yes. I tested it with firefox and oowriter.

But this seems not to be a konsole error. It's more a strange selection error.

kde-3-5.8:
selection&paste from xclip input file to oowriter works.
selection&paste from xclip input file to thunderbird text body doesn't work.
selection&paste from konsole to thunderbird text body works.

kde-4:
selection&paste from xclip input file to oowriter works.
selection&paste from xclip input file to thunderbird text body doesn't work.
selection&paste from konsole to thunderbird text body doesn't work

Strange, strange.

Comment 5 Robert Knight 2008-03-19 04:21:20 UTC

Indeed.  I suspect this is a problem with Thunderbird.