RE: [mylar-dev] Auto web link from clipboard confusing

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

This evolved from the need to easily add tasks from trackers for which we do not have connectors.  My experience is similar to yours: more than ½ the time it is annoying.  To start I think we have to make it optional, and already have a bug for that so I bumped its priority:

 

146278: make auto insertion from of web link from clipboard optional

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=146278

 

However, once the web resources stuff is solid I think we may be able to remove the “Web Link” altogether, since any relevant Web Links show up in the context, and if they’re really important you can just make them a landmark.  To support pasted in links it would be nice to have a hyperlink detector in the Notes field, so I just added:

 

147343: notes field should have hyperlink detector

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=147343

 

Also, Eugene is in the process of contributing a web only connector that makes it easier to work with repositories which don’t have a custom connector.  Once that’s done I think we will be able to get rid of the Ctrl+C functionality altogether rather than leaving it as an option.

 

145123: Support for generic web-based repositories

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145123

 

Mik

 

 

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From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Elves
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:40 AM
To: Mylar developer discussions
Subject: [mylar-dev] Auto web link from clipboard confusing

 

Upon creating a new local task we currently grab the clipboard text and if it is a URL automatically add it to the task as a web link (Planning view).   This has been bugging me and has confused at least one other user that I am aware of.  I think we should consider removing this capability. Thoughts?

 

-Rob