Bug 483459

Summary:	kate and far2l-wx clipboard interaction not working on Wayland
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Ivan Sorokin <ivan.sorokin.tech>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ivan Sorokin 2024-03-13 16:50:54 UTC

On Ubuntu 23.10 in Wayland session you can't copy text from kate to [far2l](https://github.com/elfmz/far2l) (Far Manager Linux port) GUI (wxWidgets-based) version.

The reason is that kate expose text only as`text/plain;charset=utf-8`, but wxWidgets only understand `STRING` and `UTF8_STRING` in some aspects of its clipboard API.

Please add support for `UTF8_STRING` format also.

1. Create new file in kate
2. Type any text
3. Copy to clipboard
4. Try to paste to far2l wxWidgets GUI.

See also:
https://github.com/elfmz/far2l/issues/2053
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/24391#issuecomment-1989195956
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/27569
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-123176
https://github.com/rickyrockrat/parcellite/issues/89
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/657
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/20547

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2024-03-15 17:46:41 UTC

We use QClipboard e.g. via QApplication::clipboard()->setText.
We will no add extra compat code.
If wxWidgets only understands a different type, that should be fixed there.