Bug 482062 - IDEA OR FEATURE for ISSUE as User of KDE.
Summary: IDEA OR FEATURE for ISSUE as User of KDE.
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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: 482063 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-02-29 17:00 UTC by Samuel Robins
Modified: 2024-03-01 03:46 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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2024-03-01 03:46 UTC, Samuel Robins
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Description Samuel Robins 2024-02-29 17:00:51 UTC
I will start by saying I am posting this as I cannot find feature in KDE that has this ability and how I come to posting idea.

In social media all things has a buffer for posting, from twitter to chatbox in Youtube, have a character count limit can post at 1 time.

My issue that brought me to posting is, I wish to post a cut and paste but have no clue live how many characters i am highlighting before the cut.

This feature may exist in KDE and I may have missed it. which if I did hopefully I find ability at best.

On with IDEA…WHILE HOLDING DOWN ONE BUTTON(hotkey) on the keyboard and clicking mouse to cut some text to paste to a social media platform with limited buffer:

A TOOL TIP pops up showing the character amount as you highlight the text. That way you can know exactly how many characters your are highlighting to be posted to social media platform you are using at the time and if it will fit that social media platforms buffer size.

PS: not to be redundant but hot key allow you only invoke it when need count without changing cut and paste so not annoying when do not need a count.

Best Regards
Comment 1 duha.bugs 2024-02-29 17:19:08 UTC
*** Bug 482063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 duha.bugs 2024-02-29 17:21:38 UTC
Forum discussion is here: https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-idea-for-a-feature/11062
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2024-02-29 17:30:18 UTC
The feature does not exist in KDE. 

It's an interesting ideal, unfortunately only the application knows where the text cursor is if you're selecting by keyboard so it's difficult to do well for a niche feature. Lets follow it on the forum rather than in a bug tracker.
Comment 4 Samuel Robins 2024-03-01 03:46:14 UTC
Created attachment 166229 [details]
attachment-2376970-0.html

Ok,  Thank you for the response.
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Subject: [kwin] [Bug 482062] IDEA OR FEATURE for ISSUE as User of KDE.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482062

David Edmundson <kde@davidedmundson.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |kde@davidedmundson.co.uk
         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL

--- Comment #3 from David Edmundson <kde@davidedmundson.co.uk> ---
The feature does not exist in KDE.

It's an interesting ideal, unfortunately only the application knows where the
text cursor is if you're selecting by keyboard so it's difficult to do well for
a niche feature. Lets follow it on the forum rather than in a bug tracker.

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