Bug 374892

Summary:	Allow to disable middle click to paste
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Lukas Ba. <kdeu>
Component:	copy-paste	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	natalie_clarius
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Lukas Ba. 2017-01-11 00:39:50 UTC

There should be an option in Systemsettings > Mouse.
If enabled, middle clicking on text entry boxes should not paste the content from the clipboard into the text entry box.
Note that the middle mouse button should continue working for other purposes, for example to close a tab.

This entails all KDE applications, but not necessarily other applications run on the KDE desktop.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-01-11 01:16:17 UTC

Which text entry box? If this is about the QLineEdit or QTextEdit, then this needs to be added in Qt, but Qt tries to avoid user configurable settings.

Comment 2 Lukas Ba. 2017-01-11 12:46:01 UTC

(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1)
> Which text entry box?

All of them, in all KDE applications. I can't really add a comprehensive list here. Just some examples.
* Konsole terminal commandline
* Dolphin adressbar, renaming text entry, all the text entry boxes in configuration
* Any text entry box in systemsettings5
* Kcolorchoser color entry box
* Save as dialog filename
* Kalarm new alarm
etc.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2017-01-11 16:14:19 UTC

Konsole has its own text field, and there is an option to switch MMB between 'Paste Selection' and 'Paste Clipboard'. A third option to disable the MMB could be added.

For all other applications you listed, these simply use QLineEdit. Please report this wish directly to Qt developers via https://bugreports.qt.io/

Reassigning to Konsole developers.

Comment 4 Kurt Hindenburg 2018-03-08 04:29:23 UTC

Is there any standard for not allowing MMB to not paste?  It seems like a lot of non-KDE applications allow it (xterm/chrome/firefox).

I would suggest searching for "linux disable middle mouse button paste" and trying those.