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Keruspe / GPaste

Clipboard management system
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Improving GPaste #86

Closed sojusnik closed 10 years ago

sojusnik commented 10 years ago

Hey keruspe,

while using your great app and the appropriate gnome-shell extension on a daily basis, I think that the following suggestions could improve the usability of GPaste:

  1. When the gnome-shell extension is opened via a shortcut, the focus should be on the search field and not on the first entry, like we have now. This would give us the opportunity to quickly search all entries by the press of only one shortcut. Additionally, it makes really no sense to have the first entry highlighted, since it's already present in the clipboard.
  2. The search is currently case sensitive. When writing "github" only "githbub.net" will be found, not GitHub and so on. A case insensitive search would be better imho.
  3. Implementing a way to quickly select specific entries via a key combo would also be extremely useful. F. i., after the gnome-shell extension is opened, pressing Ctrl could number all entries, so the second line/entry would have a 2, the 7th line/entry a 7 and so on. While holding Ctrl, you just have to press the appropriate number and, voilà, your entry will be selected. It's blazing fast and convenient! This approach is already realized in this gnome-shell extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/752/gpaste-integration/

Using the version from the WebUpd8 PPA maintained by Alin Andrei on Ubuntu 14.04 with Gnome 3.10 (updated through the Gnome 3 stable PPA).

All the best!

Keruspe commented 10 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated!

I just addressed your points 1 and 2 as they made a lot of sense and were trivial to fix, they'll be part of the bugfix release I plan to do on next wednesday.

Point 3 will be addressed in the next release, no ETA yet but I'd expect it to be in a month or so.

Keruspe commented 10 years ago

Actually I just did 3. too. No visual hint though, I'll probably add one later, but ctrl-0 selects the current item and ctrl-1 to 9 the following ones.

sojusnik commented 10 years ago

Hey Keruspe!

Thanks for your effort to improve Gpaste!

Regarding the 3rd point: The new feature works awesome! It would be even better, if the via shortcut highlighted entry could be selected without the need of using the enter key.

Best!

Keruspe commented 10 years ago

Yep, thought of it too, noted. Thanks