-------- Original Message --------
On 19/10/10 22:42, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
Sorry for taking this even further off
track, but...
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, fain182 <fain182@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I think should be something global, not
local to an application,
because this wouldn't solve the problem of discoverability of
the
click on the track, and of all the applications that doesn't
have an
edit menu.
+1
Furthermore, I'm just wondering how many people have copied
something to paste it later, and then accidentally copied
something else, causing the intended information to be lost?
Also, I am really annoyed when I copy something from one
application, close it, and then try to paste it somewhere else.
This is ridiculous! Why is copy/paste application centric?
For these reasons, I think a simple clipboard indicator would be a
good step forward:
- It would store data independently from applications.
- It would store recent copied data, so you could copy two
things, and paste them both.
- It would be a menu that listed the copied data, and would
paste the data when the corresponding menu item is clicked.
- It would allow global indication of whether there is
something ready to be pasted:
- A transparent state means no data
- A green state means recently copied data (maybe slowly
fade over time)
- A sold white state means old data.
Regarding the original thread, with such an indicator, a click of
the track would cause the clipboard indicator to become a solid
green, and thus the user would know something was copied. A simple
click (or even menu scrub) over to the clipboard indicator would
show exactly what was copied, and voila, the user has discovered
the functionality.
What do you think?
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Hi all,
The functionality described (1, 2, 3) is already implemented by
clipboard managers, such as pastie [1] (which I develop, using
python) and glippy [2] (using mono). Pastie can handle images and
files besides simple text; glippy can upload text and images to some
web services. (I'm attaching some pastie screenshots for reference.)
Pastie (and I think glippy too) tries to always keep something in
the clipboard, so unless explicitly requested (the menu has the
option to delete the current contents of the clipboard history), the
data is almost never empty. This is done this way to handle
correctly the way the clipboard behaves when apps are closed.
On the way of 4), I think it would be a bit distracting to change
the icon when new contents are managed; copy operations are quite
frequent and it's almost always clear for the user that some new
data has been copied into the clipboard.
Just my too cents.
[1] https://launchpad.net/~hel-sheep/+archive/pastie
[2] https://launchpad.net/glippy
PS: (AS, Sorry for resending, I forgot to CC to the mailing list.)
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