Just a quick post to give you a glimpse on what I have planned for the next version of ClipIt, so I can get some feedback. My plans include:
- support for themes
– will have a sepparate theme folder with icons that it will use in the menu and in the tray
- static entries
– you will have the option to define some static entries which will always be shown at the top of the list
- multiple item selection
– you will have the possibility to select multiple items in the “Manage history” dialog for deletion
- and many more…
I’d welcome any suggestions or opinions on these. Thank you!
Yours truly.
by jason52lh
24 Dec 2010 at 10:52
Sound nice, and cann’t wait to see
About theme support, I think just changing the tray icon name instead of edit-paste, and being able to follow system icon theme changing will be enough.
by Kevin
07 Jan 2011 at 19:48
For themes, I think changing only the tray icon is enough.
I very much like the idea of static entries though. I wonder if it would be possible to have keyboard shortcuts for them too.
by antistress
10 Jan 2011 at 15:26
Usually when i installed a clipboard manager, i can’t copy/paste pictures anymore.
For instance take a screen capture, copy it to the clipboard and try to load it within GIMP (Edit→Paste as→New picture
I’d like to be able to have a clipboard manager AND to keep the clipboard running with pictures…
by Cristian
11 Jan 2011 at 21:13
@antistress: did you try out clipit? Do you have the same issue with it?
by Vadim P
12 Jan 2011 at 01:50
Somewhat different suggestion – is it possible to get an API for clipit? I’d like to create a script to traverse my clipboard history.
Or… I recall clipit saying that history is stored in a text file. Is the text file updated upon any entry change, or only on exit? And, where is it stored at?
by Cristian
12 Jan 2011 at 06:51
@Vadim: I will work on an API in a future version ([spoiler]it might also be possible to create plugins for clipit in the future[/spoiler]), but that can take a while. Until then you can have a look at the file that clipit uses to store the history elements in. It should normally be found under ~/.local/share/clipit/history. It’s not really plain text, but you can easily handle the file in C/C++ or even other languages. Clipit currently writes to the file whenever there is a change in the history (whenever you copy a new item, or change the history by editing, removing or selecting history items). It only reads from the file once though — at startup — so I’m not sure you can synchronize multiple programs with the same file, but if you have suggestions and want to work with me on this, I can change that and adapt it so that the same file can be used for multiple instances.
by Valeryan_24
12 Jan 2011 at 09:15
Hello,
It is a very good news to see Parcellite improved in Clipit project (and also continued now), because it was the best clipboard manager (Pastie came after but with less features).
@Antistress : normally, bug with images and, for example, OpenOffice, is corrected since Parcellite 0.9.2
As new features, here are the ones I would very like to get in ClipIt :
- as said in the post, sticky clipboards to keep some texts we want to have always available (it’s like clippings extension for Firefox / Thunderbird), and option to choose where to keep them (in top or bottom of the list)
- see the current clipboard in bold text like in Parcellite (could be a configuration option)
- be able to modify current clipboard in Clipit
Thanks Cristian for your work !
by Cristian
12 Jan 2011 at 09:39
@Valeryan_24: thanks for your comment! The last two options that you listed are available in clipit actually (the edit option is in the “Manage history” dialog).
by antistress
12 Jan 2011 at 10:43
@ Cristian & Valeryan_24 : indeed clipit works flawlessly with images, thanks
by Vadim P
12 Jan 2011 at 14:16
@Cristian: Thanks, that’s just what I needed. I don’t need to write to it, just read from it – if I want to add stuff to the clipboard, xlip does the job
by Valeryan_24
13 Jan 2011 at 08:33
@Cristian: yes, thanks, I checked history manager and clipboard modification, it works fine, you’re right.
But for having current clipboard in bold, it doesn’t appear and I did not find how to activate it in preferences (tested in Ubuntu Maverick and Natty alpha) :
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1294907414.png
Another nice feature that would be fantastic to get in Clipit, coming from Pastie this time. If clipboard content is not text, but image or document, there is a small picture (one icon for each type) at beginning of row in menu like this :
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1294907532.png
by Cristian
16 Jan 2011 at 14:30
@Valeryan_24: unfortunately bolded items are not available in ubuntu’s AppIndicator. I already talked to the ayatana devs but they don’t seem to like the idea of having bolded items in the menus. You could file a bug or feature request against ayatana, maybe if they see that more people like the idea of having bolded items they might implement it.
by Arjen
14 Jan 2011 at 20:42
It would be great if you could add two features that my favorite Windows clipboard manager, ClipX, also has:
- Automatic paste. When I select an item, I would like to have it pasted immediately, not just have it put onto the clipboard
- Show the clipboard history menu at text cursor position, not mouse cursor position (at least when using the keyboard shortcut)
And for the rest… keep it simple! Thanks for ClipIt!
by Cristian
16 Jan 2011 at 14:32
@Arjen: The first one is already on my todo-list (I’m not sure if it’s possible though). Regarding the second one, I’m not sure that’s easily possible either, but I will have a look at it. Thank you for your comment!
by Josh
19 Jan 2011 at 10:46
I second Arjen’s suggestion of “automatic paste” too!
by Arjen
19 Jan 2011 at 15:05
Christian, thanks so much for considering my suggestions! The idea is easy keyboard operability!
Another suggestion I’d like to make: right now it’s possible to have a numbered list of the clipboard history. It would be great if these numbers could be used as keyboard shortcuts to select/paste the corresponding item.
by weakish
05 Feb 2011 at 15:23
@Arjen “It would be great if these numbers could be used as keyboard shortcuts to select/paste the corresponding item.”
+1
by weakish
05 Feb 2011 at 15:34
And for large clipboard history, it would be convenient to fast filter entries by incremental search.
For example:
1 bar
2 follow
3 very_long-and-very-long-item
4 http://example.com/download/foo.tar.gz
5 http://example.com/download/bar.tar.gz
… more history omitted
Say a user want to paste the 4th item, they can input 4 directly to paste it. But if there are many items, it may be difficult to seek foo.tar.gz among them. So the user may type ‘f’
and the menu reduced to something like this:
1 follow
2 http://example.com/download/foo.tar.gz
… less history omitted
(with ‘f’ highlighted)
Then the user continue to type ‘o’, suppose the menu reduced to:
1 follow
2 http://example.com/download/foo.tar.gz
(with ‘fo’ highlighted)
At this time, the user may ‘o’ again to paste (since it’s the only match). Alternatively, they may type 2.
by cewan
04 May 2011 at 13:59
I vote for your suggestion too, weakish.
Before moving to Ubuntu, I used Ditto in Windows as the clipboard manager. It is pretty much the one thing I miss from Windows.
The feature weakish mentions exists in Ditto.
More features that I would like to have (that exists in Ditto):
- select many history items and paste them all at once.
- Show multiple lines of history items.
by llaen
16 May 2011 at 17:59
@Arjen +1
That’s the one feature I really miss in clipboard managers for linux.