Bug 504736

Summary:	Clipboard setting to reject non-text from history unintuitively still includes files
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	William <Wi11iam_1>
Component:	Clipboard widget & pop-up	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	nate, notmart, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	6.3.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description William 2025-05-24 14:08:14 UTC

SUMMARY
The plasma clipboard settings do not what they say they do.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Adjust clipboard settings to not sync with select and not store non-text in history.
2. Explizitly copy file or folder.
3. Check clipboard history

OBSERVED RESULT
the file shows up in the clipboard history

EXPECTED RESULT
the file does not show up in the history

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux Kernel: openSUSE tumbleweed stable (Kernel 6.14)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
both wayland and x11 seem to be affected by this

Comment 1 Marco Martin 2025-05-26 13:13:30 UTC

It's probably more an issue on the explanation of the feature, as "technically" copying a file is text (the thing that ends up in the clipboard is the path name)

Whet that options does (and does work for it) is when you copy for instance a selection in an image on a graphic application such as Gimp or Krita

Comment 2 William 2025-05-28 16:01:42 UTC

mmh seems like it. i just testen this on a fresh kubuntu stable that is sitll running plasma 5 and the behaviour is the same.
At the very least the setting should be renamed to better describe what "non-text" and "text" selections include. '

And i guess the wanted behaviour of no files at all showing up in the history is a feature request then

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-23 20:25:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348932 ***