Bug 261936 - Copying in KMail not working as expected
Summary: Copying in KMail not working as expected
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259468
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.13.5
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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: 266320 269304 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-01-03 10:04 UTC by Przemyslaw Kaminski
Modified: 2011-06-05 19:57 UTC (History)
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Description Przemyslaw Kaminski 2011-01-03 10:04:41 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

The copying function in KMail produces garbage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Select some text in a message in KMail, press C-C to copy it. For example, I've selected word 'Slashdot' in my email. Pasting it gives:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<body>Slashdot</body>
In order to correctly paste the text 'Slashdot' I need to click the Klipper icon and select this text (it appears just below the garbage; it seems that the text is copied and then again the garbage is copied).

Actual Results:  
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<body>Slashdot</body>

Expected Results:  
Slashdot
Comment 1 zless 2011-01-24 17:53:50 UTC 
The same with Kmail in KDE 4.6 RC2
Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2011-02-15 12:11:05 UTC 
Bleh, I'm tired today. Back to KMail 1. This cannot be reproduced with KMail2.
Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2011-02-15 12:11:25 UTC 
*** Bug 266320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Tom Chiverton 2011-02-15 13:58:08 UTC 
Busted in KDE 4.6 release (Kubuntu packages on Ubuntu 10.10).
Any chance of an immediate fix rather than waiting for the next point update, this is a fairly horrible bug !
Comment 5 Tom Chiverton 2011-02-21 20:01:14 UTC 
Can't even copy from preview window in KMail Kontact component to new compose window without the HTML stuff appearing.

Oops. Surely the KMail developers have seen this, and a fix is already done ?
Comment 6 Tom Chiverton 2011-03-08 23:08:21 UTC 
Still busted in 4.6.1 !
Comment 7 Klaus 2011-03-24 13:09:13 UTC 
*** Bug 269304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Tom Chiverton 2011-03-27 18:09:32 UTC 
Hmm, interesting observation: If I double click a word in Kmail to highlight it, then middle (well, left and right at the same time) click in (say) FireFox, the text comes through OK. If I TAB back to Kontact and CTRL-C and then CTRL-V in FireFox, you get HTML-wrapped-garbage again. Odd.

FWIW My Klipper settings are to prevent empty clipboard and ignore selection.
Comment 9 Thorsten 2011-04-24 21:51:27 UTC 
Please eleminate this bug!
Mandriva 2010.2 KDE 4.5.4.

Regards,
TeaAge
Comment 10 Christophe Marin 2011-04-24 22:12:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #9)
> Please eleminate this bug!
> Mandriva 2010.2 KDE 4.5.4.
> 
> Regards,
> TeaAge

fixed since January.. Make sure you use kmail 1.13.6

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 259468 ***
Comment 11 Torgny Nyblom 2011-06-05 19:57:19 UTC 
*** Bug 274770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***