• Pantherina@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Yay, basic features needing weird workarounds!

    Edit: it seems like it, but we were wrong. You dont need a filepath, you can literally copy the file and paste it to a

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    Can someone give me a situation where you cant paste a file and it inserts the filepath instead?

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          9 months ago

          How is it better if you are going to paste it anyway? I mean, on GNOME you would have to just copy the file, instead of the two clicks on KDE.

          Am I missing something?

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            This works in Dolphin/KDE too, actually same workflow as on Windows. I just find it very strange to do that, but as you are saying that, I suppose as on Unix everything is a file, copying a file to a location that cant handle the file is just like copying the filepath!

            Boom, blew my silly KDE mind. I think you are right, in most situations you can just copy-paste the actual file, as you only need file paths where the file cannot be pasted anyways.

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              9 months ago

              This might work sometimes, but some other times you are dealing with a program that deals in files and text and you want the path itself, for example, to send the path of a file in a shared mounted disk to a colleague/friend through slack /discord/telegram/teams. All of those will try to send the file itself instead of the path I would want to send.

              Furthermore, idk how that interacts within a VM environment, for example when you have a work computer and you need to connect into a gnome based remote desktop environment, will the shared clipboard act nicely? That’s way too many variables and prone to errors, an option to copy path is just simpler.

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            9 months ago

            If for some reason you paste a file in telegram/slack/discord/teams, it tries to send the file, so I have no way of sending the path to the file (which might be on a shared device) to someone unless I paste it in a text editor first and then copy the text.

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              9 months ago

              That’s a very logical use case. Are there any keyboard modifiers you could use? Maybe pasting with CTRL+SHIFT+V for example?