Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8
On Monday 07 February 2011 4:40:10 am Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm still having this problem. If anyone would try the steps described below
and get back to me with the results, I would greatly appreciate it :)
Should be fixed in the kdepim 4.4.10 release.
Steven P. Ulrick
> Hello Everyone,
> I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora
13
> and KDE 4.5.4. All of this is fully updated.
>
> I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this
from
> any email in KMail:
> No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?
>
> and paste it into any text editor, it comes out like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-
> strict.dtd">
> <body>No. Why do you need the "full-install"
DVD?</body>
>
> If I want to copy and paste a tracking number for an item that I purchased
> online, it looks like this when I paste it:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-
> strict.dtd">
> <body>9101128882300487354725</body>
>
> In the above example, this is the procedure I followed:
> 1. Using my mouse, I select "9101128882300487354725" in the desired
email.
> 2. Right click the mouse, and then select "Copy"
> 3. Then, I either do "Ctrl V" or "Right Click | Paste"
> 4. The result is always the same. I get the text that I selected, plus a
whole
> lot HTML markup...
>
> I have KMail set to compose and send emails in text only.
>
> In my experiments so far, this only occurs when I copy FROM KMail. If I copy
> from any other application, and paste INTO KMail, it pastes correctly. Also,
> when I select and then copy "9101128882300487354725" FROM KMAIL, and then
check
> my clipboard, it shows up in the undesired format:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-
> strict.dtd">
> <body>9101128882300487354725</body>
>
> As far as I know, I didn't change anything to cause this problem to occur. I
do
> know that up until a few weeks ago, on this same system, if (from within
KMail)
> I selected and copied something like "9101128882300487354725" and then
pasted
> the result into any application, I would get this:
> "9101128882300487354725"
>
> That is how it has always worked for me, and that is NOT how it's working for
me
> now :(
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> Steven P. Ulrick
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