Bug 427140

Summary:	drag & drop text from Kate to other window or application
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	apache <sabayon11>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph, justin.zobel, waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description apache 2020-09-30 08:36:36 UTC

I am not sure if this is Kate issue or some other Plasma component. Feel free to reassign elsewhere. 

Recently there was a feature added to Plasma that it is possible now to drag some text and drop it on desktop and a new sticky note is created. That is cool. 

The issue is that when I have two Kate windows open side by side like in the screenshot it is not possible to drag & drop text. Only copy paste works. 
https://i.imgur.com/c2N98SE.png

Expected result:
Make it possible to drag & drop text from any text application to any other text application.

This is kind of strange because I was able to drag & drop text from Kate to  Writer. 
But I wasn't able to drag & drop text from Kate to Kate or from Kate to Anki editor window.
https://apps.ankiweb.net/
This is software for learning and it is particularly important to me to be able to use drag & drop method. If I spend many hours editing text, making every step easier, effortless is very important.

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2020-10-27 07:51:34 UTC

Confirmed on kate from git master.

Comment 2 Waqar Ahmed 2020-12-17 11:17:29 UTC

I can't reproduce this. Drag&Drop from Kate to Kate, Kate to firefox works for me using Version 20.08.3.

Comment 3 apache 2020-12-17 13:45:06 UTC

I checked on Plasma 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

and it works fine for Kate to Kate or Kate to Firefox but doesn't for Kate to Anki.
This is strange because I can drag & drop text from Firefox to Anki.
To test in Anki click in Anki on Add option.

Anki is one of the most popular applications for learning, so it would be really nice to have it working.

Comment 4 Waqar Ahmed 2020-12-19 10:50:10 UTC

Dragging and dropping from Kate -> Anki is also working for me. I did the folowing:

- Open kate, write some text
- Open Anki, Click "Add" - card add dialog opens
- Select text in kate and drag it to Anki
- Drop text in textline with label "Front"

Anki Version 2.1.35 (84dcaa86)
Python 3.8.6 Qt 5.15.2 PyQt 5.15.2

Kate 20.08.3
KDE Frameworks 5.76.0
Qt 5.15.2 (built against 5.15.1)

Comment 5 apache 2020-12-19 13:23:24 UTC

Indeed. With new Anki version it also works for me. Thank you for checking. 
I think it the bug report can be closed now.

Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2020-12-19 13:30:02 UTC

Ok, thanks for testing!