Bug 480441 - Add option to klipper to clear history (or last item) after some time
Summary: Add option to klipper to clear history (or last item) after some time
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Clipboard widget & pop-up (show other bugs)
Version: 5.27.10
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2024-01-28 15:12 UTC by Yormik
Modified: 2024-02-06 23:43 UTC (History)
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Description Yormik 2024-01-28 15:12:33 UTC
Hello!
I've been using KDE for many years! Thank you all for KDE! Very nice desktop environment.
Though I have one idea, how to make its component better - klipper. Now it's included in plasma-workspace package.
Each time when password or name or anything else gets copied I have to clear it manually. Would be nice to have such option - auto-clear the last history item after copying when [x] seconds passed. Because data copied already usually aren't needed more.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-02-06 23:43:12 UTC
Thanks for the kind words!

As for the request, I'm not sure how useful it would be. Making assumptions about user content is a risky game. Yes, it would be nice to auto-clear passwords or credit card numbers or other sensitive pieces of information, but it would be annoying to auto-clear non-sensitive data that you want to use at some point in the near future but not immediately. Also, auto-clearing would mangle or destroy your clipboard history; you wouldn't be able to have a nice handy log of everything you've copied in the recent past. So I suspect most of the people who turned this setting on would ultimately find it annoying after living with it for a while and would turn it off again.

For that reason, I think we won't be able to consider this feature, sorry. But thanks anyway for the idea!