Bug 355460

Summary:	Make Information text in "About System" Kcm module selectable
Product:	[Applications] kinfocenter	Reporter:	Prasad Murthy <phoenix_firebrd>
Component:	InfoSummary	Assignee:	David Hubner <hubn3rd>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aaronhoneycutt, bugs.kde.org, skierpage, valorie.zimmerman, wincak
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.4.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Prasad Murthy 2015-11-17 00:59:55 UTC

The Information shown in the About System is not selectable, so sharing of this info is difficult. The information displayed should be make selectable so that it can be copy-pasted/shared elsewhere.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open about system from kickoff or run "kcmshell5 about-distro" from konsole
2. Try selecting the text shown as information there
3.

Actual Results:  
Text not selectable and cannot be copied to clipboard

Expected Results:  
The information shown as text should be selectable so that it can be copied to clipboard their by able to paste/share wherever needed easily.

Comment 1 Aaron Honeycutt 2015-11-17 01:10:46 UTC

I think this would be super useful for people reporting their Plasma versions and Kernel versions.

Comment 2 Valorie Zimmerman 2015-11-17 10:31:23 UTC

+1. Dialogs where text is not selectable lose half their value. Please make that happen.

Comment 3 skierpage 2016-07-10 23:50:27 UTC

Yes, having to retype this info is sad. A workaround is to bring up an app with a Help >About {APP} menu item, e.g. Kate's  Help > About Kate > Version, in which the text is often copyable.

FWIW, Firefox's about:support page (load that dummy URL in its location field) has really nice [Copy raw data to clipboard] [Copy text to clipboard] buttons. Probably overkill here.

Comment 4 Ken Fallon 2016-07-28 14:52:19 UTC

I can confirm that this is an issue on Fedora 24

Preventing copy - leads to errors and reduces the chances of people finding fixes for themselves.

Comment 5 wincak 2018-02-12 19:19:51 UTC

Just came here to report this. Plasma 5.11.5 / Frameworks 5.42.0 still don't have the text selectable and it would still be a useful function.

Comment 6 wincak 2018-02-19 21:10:23 UTC

Turns out this is not a trivial thing to achieve because the information is displayed using several QLabels in a grid layout and you cannot select text across more QLabels.
Simply printing all the info newline-separated in a single QLabel (like in KAboutApplicationDialog) gets the selection to work, but you can't get such nice centered alignment.
Using a QTableWidget also doesn't look right - different background colour, etc.
Creating a special "copy info" button really might be overkill, also you don't always need all the info.
So is the right solution to somehow use a single QLabel with formatting tags (like in the "USB Devices" page)?

Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2018-02-19 22:30:27 UTC

Forward-duplicating, because the other tickets has more votes and a proposed patch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 366266 ***