Bug 219901

Summary: Universal "paste as text" option
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: wishlist CC: cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Dotan Cohen 2009-12-24 00:56:31 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The clipboard can hold many types of data: plain text, rich text, image, etc. Now that many KDE apps support rich text (such as Korganizer and Kaddressbook's notes field) it would be great if there were a simple function that would paste as text. Maybe with Shift-Mouse3 and Shift-Ctrl-V.

My primary use case is pasting into Kaddressbook from Open Office, but this issue will certainly affect other use cases.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2013-12-29 21:14:27 UTC 
This could be an option in the QTextEdit menu or its keyboard/mouse handling. Please request this feature directly from Qt developers via https://bugreports.qt-project.org/

For other applications, that do not use a QTextEdit (e.g. Calligra Words), please report this separately.