I find it odd that out of all OSes, and DEs, GNOME hasn’t included a clipboard manager with something like history. With even less manageable OSes like macOS having some sort of clipboards. I am aware you can use extensions but who knows when they decide to stop updating, but many extensions are kn…

General reason is that clipboard managers were confusing to most people. But there is some effort on having clipboard manager from one of the designers, so who knows, maybe GNOME will grow one. Hard to say for me.

Did GNOME have a clipboard in the past? When was that? I do find KDE’s clipboard confusing at first since their default settings are odd choices but was manageable with the settings. If GNOME thought it was confusing to the user-base wouldn’t disabling it by default be the better solution? The solu…

I think there’s a security risk to keep history of clipboard: when a user uses a password manager, every user’s password are copied to the clipboard. In this case, if an history of clipboard is kept in memory or in an unencrypted file, all user’s passwords are at risk to be theft. Do you know if ot…

[image] gnomehasissues: Did GNOME have a clipboard in the past? Not GNOME, per se, but Moblin/MeeGo (which was based on the same tech stack as GNOME) did user testing of a “paste board” in 2010. The paste board was, essentially, what a “clipboard manager” is today: an overview of everything t…

Not sure but but there must be ways to mitigate that. I don’t really believe that is the true reason.

I really liked hearing those very specific and niche details. Even with your last point, I still think it should be included. GNOME, which positions itself as future-forward, should have that by now.

Interesting topic for me, coming to Linux after over 4 decades GUI use on Apple products. Clipboard managers have been around a long time on Mac, recently in the OS itself, otherwise through 3rd party apps such as LaunchBar (macOS only). I have come to find a clipboard history usage quite handy in …

Not that I have any say in here, I’m not even a contributor, but I’d ask the question why that is future-forward. It increases complexity in interaction to the point of likely going unused while introducing potential new security vulnerabilities, thus costing time and effort in an ongoing basis as w…

I don’t think a clipboard would be hard to maintain, and I especially don’t think that tool is future-forward. I only used the term future-forward in an attempt to be polite and describe GNOME itself, and how GNOME forces many defaults or changes with little user control, in the name of simplicity o…

Yeah, there is no reason for GNOME not to have it by now.

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