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.
I think this would be super useful for people reporting their Plasma versions and Kernel versions.
+1. Dialogs where text is not selectable lose half their value. Please make that happen.
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.
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.
Just came here to report this. Plasma 5.11.5 / Frameworks 5.42.0 still don't have the text selectable and it would still be a useful function.
Turns out this is not a trivial thing to achieve because the information is displayed using several QLabels in a grid layout and you cannot select text across more QLabels. Simply printing all the info newline-separated in a single QLabel (like in KAboutApplicationDialog) gets the selection to work, but you can't get such nice centered alignment. Using a QTableWidget also doesn't look right - different background colour, etc. Creating a special "copy info" button really might be overkill, also you don't always need all the info. So is the right solution to somehow use a single QLabel with formatting tags (like in the "USB Devices" page)?
Forward-duplicating, because the other tickets has more votes and a proposed patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 366266 ***