Bug 452186

Summary:	Scrollwheel over klipper tray icon could change selected clipboard content
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	juanjo.ng.83 <juanjo.ng.83>
Component:	Clipboard widget & pop-up	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description juanjo.ng.83@gmail.com 2022-04-02 18:16:39 UTC

Feature request (Sorry if this is a duplicate or if suggestions go to another place)

When hovering over sound icon in the tray and using the scrollwheel, volume is changed.

I expected that doing the same over klipper icon in the system tray would change current content in the clipboard, over the entries in the clipboard history. And while scrolling, the tooltip would show the selected entry.

I'll try to explain this better. Imagine you have several entries in the clipboard.

Content 1: "aaaa", last and currently selected
Content 2: "bbbb"
Content 3: "cccc"
Content 4: "dddd"

Now, hovering over klipper icon in the tray shows a tooltip with the current selection.
Using the scrollwheel then, nothing happens.

I expected that scrollwheeling down 1 time would select content 2.
I expected that scrollwheeling down 2 times would select content 3.
And with each step, the tooltip would be updated with the new selected content.

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2022-04-02 18:18:46 UTC

Unless you have an amazing memory you won't remember what's in content 2 or 3.

It's not a clear up / down like volume. 
It'll be more false hits than useful.

Comment 2 juanjo.ng.83@gmail.com 2022-04-02 18:38:25 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)
> Unless you have an amazing memory you won't remember what's in content 2 or
> 3.

If you know you are looking a previously copied string, the suggested feature makes selecting the content faster than the current method (click the icon, move towards the history list, scroll the list up and select the desired content).

Also, the tooltip helps in knowing which previous content is selected.

> It's not a clear up / down like volume. 

For me it is, if you are looking for a recently copied string in the last 5 minutes.

I have a 20 items history, but most of the times I am looking for the last copied items.

> It'll be more false hits than useful.

I disagree. It is very uncommon to copy a content, go over the klipper icon and use the scrollwheel and then paste the content somewhere else. Usually when using copy-paste, you copy a content and directly go and paste it.