Bug 88902

Summary: Support for clipboard items using konqueror services like search, dictionary
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Fred Schättgen <kdebugtracker.sch>
Component: Clipboard widget & pop-upAssignee: Esben Mose Hansen <kde>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: jjm, kdedev, noahadvs
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.15.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Fred Schättgen 2004-09-05 20:50:01 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Today I have discovered a nice little kicker applet called "KlipOQuery" (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=13241). You can easily look up text in various search engines, dictionaries and similar. It works pretty much like konqueror's web shortcuts, but uses the current clipboard content instead. 
There are two problems with it: First, it eats space. Second, it doesn't use the URL templates of konqueror, but it's own ones instead. 

But what KlipOQuery is doing would fit perfectly well into klipper IHMO. Klipper could display a new submenu in it's RMB menu where you can select a service to search for the current selection. No new configuration options would be needed, only a shortcut for "kcmshell ebrowsing" maybe.

It would be much more conveniant to search for google, white pages, wikipedia that way.
Instead of: select text -> start konqueror -> try to remember shortcut, type shortcut -> paste text -> hit enter
..if could be like..
select text -> right-click klipper -> click the service you want to use.

It wouldn't save many clicks, but if you use if often it would make a difference.
Comment 1 Esben Mose Hansen 2009-10-16 21:50:50 UTC 
This is actually available in SVN, except that no shortcuts are defined. It would be cool if the web shortcuts could be reused, I'll have to think about that. Otherwise I'll just define some examples to get people started.
Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2021-10-05 07:43:53 UTC 
FWIW, you can do this with Klipper at the moment, although you need to define a new action for each web shortcut that you want to use.

Configure a regexp pattern "^.+$" which matches anything - or if you often make large selections you could use something like "^.{,100}$" to limit the search query size.

Then define an action "kfmclient openURL 'gg:%s'" to open Google, or for any other web shortcut.
Comment 3 Noah Davis 2023-08-10 20:46:19 UTC 
This bug is for KDE 3.3.0, not Plasma 5.15.3, so I'm marking this as resolved unmaintained.
Comment 4 Jonathan Marten 2023-10-04 20:07:55 UTC 
Still valid wish, because the Klipper actions configuration and engine is still used behind the scenes in Plasma 5.
Comment 5 TraceyC 2025-08-01 23:25:21 UTC 
This seems like it would be a nice quality of life thing