The topic KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
One of the biggest benefits of using Linux is that it’s a very much an operating system that gets out of your way. As such, when something on Linux doesn’t respect people’s choices and keeps bothering them, the developers are sure to know about it. And as much as I love KDE Plasma, there is one thing that irks me when managing the clipboard: the constant asking if I want to clear starred items.
Fortunately, that annoying quirk will soon be fixed. The KDE community has released its new edition of This Week in Plasma, and with it comes confirmation that Plasma will finally realise that, when you star something on your clipboard to save for later, it’s probably not a good idea to ask if it should be cleared all the time.
Over on This Week in Plasma, KDE’s community shows off everything the developers have been working on. There’s a ton of features and fixes here scheduled for release in KDE Plasma 6.6.6, 6.7, and even 6.8, so it’s well worth a full read if you’re interested in what’s happening behind the scenes.
My favorite feature of the lot is marked for release in KDE Plasma 6.7. If you’ve used the clipboard history on KDE Plasma, you’ll likely know that you can star specific items to prevent them from being automatically deleted. However, if you tell KDE Plasma to clear your clipboard, it will show you a notification asking if you also want to clear out the starred items, which, 99% of the time, you don’t want to do.
Clearing the clipboard while any items are starred no longer asks if you want to clear the starred items as well; now they are never automatically cleared, and you have to do this manually, on the logic that if you starred those items, you probably want to keep them around! (Tobias Fella, plasma-workspace MR #6583)
Future updates will contain even more nice fixes and features, including reducing the amount of “visual jankiness” that Discover’s progress bar has when you perform a system update, and a nice fix for a bug where you couldn’t favorite an app if you uninstall and reinstall it.