Bug 278188

Summary:	[GTK/Linux] Plugin version should also be copied into selection buffer (not only clipboard) in X11
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jens Seidel <jensseidel>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	jensseidel
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Jens Seidel

2009-05-28 07:30:44 EDT

Build ID: 3.4.0  I20090313-0100

Steps To Reproduce:
Whenever I report a bug in Eclipse I have to dig the version number of the affected plugins. I select "About Eclipse Platform" -> "Installation Details". There I can open the popup menu which contains "Copy". Nevertheless I cannot insert the copied text into other applications by pressing the middle mouse button as usual in X (selection buffer, see also: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xclipboard.html).

I really don't know how the current behaviour can be useful. At least for me the About dialog is modal. So I cannot even copy the text in a temporary text editor in Eclipse itself without closing the dialog (and later reoping for the next version string).

I don't know if clipboard managers such as Klipper can be
used/configured to help in this case but I know that such programs are nearly unusable with Eclipse because of bug #191665/#153809 (13 votes!).

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:18:31 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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