Bug 355460 - Make Information text in "About System" Kcm module selectable
Summary: Make Information text in "About System" Kcm module selectable
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kinfocenter
Classification: Unclassified
Component: InfoSummary (show other bugs)
Version: 5.4.3
Platform: Kubuntu Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Hubner
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Reported: 2015-11-17 00:59 UTC by Prasad Murthy
Modified: 2016-07-28 14:52 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Prasad Murthy 2015-11-17 00:59:55 UTC
The Information shown in the About System is not selectable, so sharing of this info is difficult. The information displayed should be make selectable so that it can be copy-pasted/shared elsewhere.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open about system from kickoff or run "kcmshell5 about-distro" from konsole
2. Try selecting the text shown as information there
3.

Actual Results:  
Text not selectable and cannot be copied to clipboard

Expected Results:  
The information shown as text should be selectable so that it can be copied to clipboard their by able to paste/share wherever needed easily.
Comment 1 Aaron Honeycutt 2015-11-17 01:10:46 UTC
I think this would be super useful for people reporting their Plasma versions and Kernel versions.
Comment 2 Valorie Zimmerman 2015-11-17 10:31:23 UTC
+1. Dialogs where text is not selectable lose half their value. Please make that happen.
Comment 3 skierpage 2016-07-10 23:50:27 UTC
Yes, having to retype this info is sad. A workaround is to bring up an app with a Help >About {APP} menu item, e.g. Kate's  Help > About Kate > Version, in which the text is often copyable.

FWIW, Firefox's about:support page (load that dummy URL in its location field) has really nice [Copy raw data to clipboard] [Copy text to clipboard] buttons. Probably overkill here.
Comment 4 Ken Fallon 2016-07-28 14:52:19 UTC
I can confirm that this is an issue on Fedora 24

Preventing copy - leads to errors and reduces the chances of people finding fixes for themselves.