Issue 2345 - Cut and Paste between KDE and OpenOffice non-functional
Summary: Cut and Paste between KDE and OpenOffice non-functional
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: philipp.lohmann
QA Contact: issues@sw
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: 2063 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2001-11-29 18:02 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2004-11-25 17:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2001-11-29 18:02:03 UTC 
From My understanding of how clipboards work, there are two types (X Original,
and MOTIF) - it appears that OpenOffice is not doing one, or both quite correctly.

I can Cut and Paste via the standard highlight/middle button click just fine
between OpenOffice and X Applications(Xterm, rxvt, xjed), but it doesn't work
between OpenOffice and KDE - KDE to Gnome apps works fine (KMail to Mozilla,
Evolution, Nautilus), KDE to X works fine,(and both cases vice-versa) but
OpenOffice to KDE, and KDE to OpenOffice is broken. Due to the fact that KDE
appears to work just fine with all other apps, this leads me to think that there
is still some imperfection in the OpenOffice clipboard handler.

Environment:
KDE 2.2.2 (also 2.2.1)
XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 w/ XRender on
Linux i686 (Kernel 2.4.9)
OpenOffice 638/641

Thanks.
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-12-03 10:30:37 UTC 
Reassigned to Éric.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2001-12-05 20:26:05 UTC 
I tried from Calc and Writer to KWrite and KWord for instance -> nothing comes out. I noticed the same different behaviour OOo <-> X apps = works ; OOo <-> KDE Apps = doesn't work.
Comment 3 eric.savary 2001-12-05 20:27:08 UTC 
Reassigned to HRO.
Comment 4 hennes.rohling 2001-12-06 18:23:35 UTC 
If using the primary selection one format of the provided formats is 
selected automaticly. I guess the behaviour will be the same if using 
the clipboard selection but using "edit/paste special" 
with "Unformatted text" will work.

Phillip, can you please take a look at this.
Comment 5 philipp.lohmann 2001-12-07 13:19:21 UTC 
reproducible in 641s
Comment 6 philipp.lohmann 2001-12-12 19:07:30 UTC 
KDE uses different Atoms for the same types. Fixed in toplevel.
Comment 7 ulf.stroehler 2001-12-17 09:29:08 UTC 
*** Issue 2063 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 olo 2002-02-20 11:04:49 UTC 
KDE is changing the ways its clipboard works in version 3.0.
See http://dot.kde.org/1013076354/.

For reference about how X clipboard should be handled, this article
written by Jamie Zawinski is a must-read:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Comment 9 philipp.lohmann 2002-02-20 11:59:35 UTC 
both true, but the actual must read is

ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.6/xc/doc/hardcopy/ICCCM/

and IMHO it is about time that KDE gets compliant again.
Comment 10 philipp.lohmann 2004-11-25 17:31:37 UTC 
closing