Bug 219901

Summary:	Universal "paste as text" option
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	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.