Bug 89039

Summary: Paste (middle mouse button) on a contact sends the clipboard contents to that person.
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Nathan Toone <nathan>
Component: Contact listAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: matthewrollings, wstephenson
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.40.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nathan Toone 2004-09-07 23:08:49 UTC 
Version:           0.9.0 (using KDE 3.3.89 (CVS >= 20040820), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-gentoo-r3

It would be really nice to be able to paste an initial message to a kopete contact using the mmb.  Pressing mmb on a contact would open a chat with that user and pre-populate the message box with the contents of the clipboard.  It wouldn't automatically send, as this could cause a security issue.

It only saves a couple of mousepresses, but it would be a really natural action (from a usability point of view).

You could do the same if the contents of the clipboard were anything else but text, and it could initiate a file transfer.

This would be really useful to send URLs to contacts, or to copy info from a screen to a contact.
Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2007-11-14 14:49:10 UTC 
Nice idea
Comment 2 Matthew 2009-07-13 18:02:02 UTC 
This is a great idea, I can't believe I hadn't already tried to do it.
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:26:56 UTC 
Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.