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Clipboard manager with advanced features
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FR: Add "Display CopyQ Version" as a menuitem in the Help menu #1895

Open Gitoffthelawn opened 2 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When reporting bugs, it is most useful if people include the info from the copyq version command.

Describe the solution you'd like Add "Display CopyQ Version..." as a menuitem in the Help menu that pops open a little window with the results of the copyq version command. That window can have a button to copy the text to the clipboard.

Describe alternatives you've considered Mind meld with Lukas to transfer version data details. :)

Additional context This will also help relive congestion in the Item menu, since those of us who report bugs likely have copyq version in that menu.

hluk commented 2 years ago

Not sure how easy (if possible) it would be, but maybe there could be "Report Bug..." menu entry instead which would open new issue form on GitHub and fill in these details automatically.

Gitoffthelawn commented 2 years ago

Not sure how easy (if possible) it would be, but maybe there could be "Report Bug..." menu entry instead which would open new issue form on GitHub and fill in these details automatically.

I honestly dislike those. I don't like applications to submit things online (unless the application is a web browser!).

That said, if the menuitem opens a dialog box containing a text field pre-populated with the relevant details, and has 2 buttons:

  1. Copy to clipboard
  2. Create item on GitHub

then I don't mind them (I'll copy the data to the clipboard and then paste it into GitHub manually). Of course, without knowing that's what the menuitem will do, I may never click on it. ;)

I've just had too many bad experiences clicking on similar menuitems and have them try to automatically share info I didn't want to share. Of course, I know you would never do that, but those bad actors have trained me to never click on similarly named menuitems.