Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

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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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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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