HTML Text becames unavailable to paste or corrupt

[Eldhrimer]

When copying text from a webpage, and then selecting that clip from the app to move it to the current clipboard, it then becomes not-pasteable in native GTK text fields, and when pasting in the browser the pasted output is in (I guess) chinese.

Is my understanding that Clips stores those web snippets as an html file, presumably to preserve formatting, but as it stands today it's quite unusable since it prevents the very thing it tries to accomplish, which is to paste the content.

As an example

Original text: Multi format clipboard manager with extra features (taken from the readme)

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[hezral]

that's correct, it stores as html content. GTK text fields may not be html aware i believe, so it won't work. I've tried with LibreOffice Writer and Google Docs and it does work.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/762735/132932881-8560829e-1a2f-48d9-9779-00dcf91c5c18.mp4

Can you share which browser that you tested it with?

I do plan to strip the html and provide a plaintext copy option as well in the future release.

[Eldhrimer]

I confirm that pasting in LibreOffice Writer and Google Docs works as expected.

The browser I'm using is Firefox 92 (flatpak). The chinese output i get is when pasting to a normal text input field either in Firefox's UI (like the URL bar) or in a webpage.

GTK text fields may not be html aware i believe, so it won't work.

Given that it's an app developed in a GTK toolkit I think that it's important that it works. I believe stripping the html content and giving a "copy with format" / "copy without format" would be enough, and somehow communicate this to the user, because this behavior is kind of confusing given the premise of the app.

That said amazing work, one of the best apps out there for elementary!

[hezral]

Thanks for the additional info. I will test it out. I tested and can reproduce it as well. I'm guessing Firefox sees it and tries to convert it to plain text.

So far i'm able to have both type of contents, just figuring out the best implementation as it involves adjusting the shortcut keys and ui as well.

And thanks for the feedback so far 😊

[hezral]

added option to copy plaintext of the html content