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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re:Bug#27383: What is your take on this?
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-06-23 14:47:30
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On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2001 05:08 Jeff Sacksteder wrote:

> I've been thinking about this feature a lot lately,and now I get angry
> using IE at work because it doesn't have it. I think this is going to be
> one of those things that just feels intuitively right to anyone who uses

:)

> There seems to be three different concepts that we are discussing as if
> they were the same. I don't know how the code should actually represent
> each one.
>
>
> 1. Invoke program to operate on the file in the clipboard.

file would be an absolute path or a URL, right? That's what klipper can/will 
be able to do.

> 2. Invoke program to create new item based on string in clipboard- Mailto
> or URL

I don't understand what you mean with "to create new item based on string in 
clipboard".

> 3. Feed string on clipboard to predefined input form on the web.

You mean "Paste" with Ctrl-V?

> I think it is important that the user perceives the action to be within
> Konqueror, even if the heavy lifting is done by Klipper. I don't know if
> right-click behaviour is the job of Konqueror or of khtml. However, it
> would be great to make this feature available everywhere by putting it in
> klipper. I think the klipper interface should present 'local actions' and
> 'web actions' to the user. We don't want to muddle up local thesaurus
> functions and a thesaurus web site in the mind of the user. 'Web actions'
> should always return a HTML page as a result.

Klipper has one input (currently just the clipboard). It can do anything with 
that input, match regular expressions on it and present a popupmenu with 
different actions. One could be looking up the input on a webpage (i.e. 
opening a konqueror window with dict.leo.org), another could be delegating a 
query to kdict for example.

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer

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