Version: (using KDE 4.2.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package 'copy link location' does not copy into primary buffer until kde 4.2 'copy link location' copied the link address into the primary X buffer (maybe into the clipboard too). Since kde 4.2 it is only in the clipboard. Reproduce: 'copy link location' (of any address). Paste the primary buffer (usually middle click) somewhere. This bug resembles bug 102956.
Can confirm here. KDE-4.2.0's akregator on Mandriva Cooker, installed from Mandriva's RPMs. It's very annoying. Please fix it.
Created attachment 33667 [details] A Patch to correct the bug (against latest trunk) This patch corrects this bug. It was a simple matter of uncommenting a commented-out line. The comment about the commented out line read: {{{{{{{ // don't set url to selection as it's a no-no according to a fd.o spec }}}}}}} And I've changed it to: {{{{ // Setting the selection to the URL is apparantly a no-no according to a // freedesktop.org spec (which ?), but users have complained and so we // restore it. }}}} I will now punish all the ivory-tower freedesktop.org spec-writers by having them spend a year reading RSS using akregator, without this patch so they'll understand how inane their recommendations are. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
SVN commit 967999 by osterfeld: Make "copy link location" copy the URL to the primary selection buffer (what gets pasted on middle-click) again. Some unspecified spec allegedly says it's wrong, but nobody seems to care, so reenable it for consistency's sake . Following a patch by Shlomi Fish BUG:183022 M +3 -1 articleviewer.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=967999
The patch with the fix was not applied to the trunk yet. Why? Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
SVN commit 971103 by osterfeld: forwardport: Make "copy link location" copy the URL to the primary selection buffer (what gets pasted on middle-click) again. Some unspecified spec allegedly says it's wrong, but nobody seems to care, so reenable it for consistency's sake. Following a patch by Shlomi Fish CCBUG:183022 M +3 -1 articleviewer.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=971103