Bug 486190

Summary: Clipboard applets should not auto-close on clearing clipboard
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: dmatteo002
Component: Clipboard widget & pop-upAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: dmatteo002, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.0.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description dmatteo002 2024-04-27 10:45:04 UTC 
SUMMARY
Clearing clipboard and removing all notification have two different result. While the first close the clipboard popup, the second does not close the notification popup. This is inconsistent and either one or the other should change. I believe that automatically closing is more annoying especially if using a floating panel, that also disappear on closing the popup or if using a systemtray where one would like to access other applets after clearing the clipboard.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Copy something
2. Open clipboard in systemtray
3. Clear clipboard / delete all entry manually.

OBSERVED RESULT
Close popup.

EXPECTED RESULT
Should not close popup.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-08-09 21:10:57 UTC 
The reason why clearing the clipboard also closes is it because it also hides the widget entirely until there's something else in the clipboard, because there's nothing relevant you can do with an empty clipboard. The behavior is therefore considered intentional at the moment.