SUMMARY The plasma clipboard settings do not what they say they do. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Adjust clipboard settings to not sync with select and not store non-text in history. 2. Explizitly copy file or folder. 3. Check clipboard history OBSERVED RESULT the file shows up in the clipboard history EXPECTED RESULT the file does not show up in the history SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux Kernel: openSUSE tumbleweed stable (Kernel 6.14) KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION both wayland and x11 seem to be affected by this
It's probably more an issue on the explanation of the feature, as "technically" copying a file is text (the thing that ends up in the clipboard is the path name) Whet that options does (and does work for it) is when you copy for instance a selection in an image on a graphic application such as Gimp or Krita
mmh seems like it. i just testen this on a fresh kubuntu stable that is sitll running plasma 5 and the behaviour is the same. At the very least the setting should be renamed to better describe what "non-text" and "text" selections include. ' And i guess the wanted behaviour of no files at all showing up in the history is a feature request then
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348932 ***