Copy / paste can be fiddly on mobile. I opened an MR today to make the paste part a bit easier in phosh-osk-stub (another old branch finally cleaned up into a (hopefully) mergeable state):
@agx It's sad how copy and paste seems to be a pretty solved issue between GTK and Plasma on Desktop, but breaks so frequently on mobile.
I guess that's probably largely due to Phosh not being Gnome, but don't quote me on it. I'd be curious to try KDE apps on Gnome Mobile and see if it's any better...
@agx That's like Windows Phone, which is the best way to implement paste on mobile I feel since you don't have to worry about pasting in the wrong spot.
Interesting... and how does it predict what the user may want to copy?... and correct it if wrong?
@Blort That's the thing, with the current rope we have we can just take what the text input gives us so we'll need to improve this per toolkit. It works very well for most cases though, that's why I might end up enabling it and work from there.
And here's what we could do for copy. Put that into an extra MR for now so we can check whether it's predictive enough for the user what is being copied (while the paste bits from above can already land for 0.42).
Note that this is orthogonal to what an app/UI toolkit offers for copy/paste (via context menus or drag handles) already.
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