Re: [Geary] paste with formatting not working if copied from Firefox

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

I see the same thing.  It's not the same as 730495, but I suspect it 
has the same root cause: we're relying on WebKit to handle 
copy-and-paste operations, and it doesn't always do what we want it to.

During a copy-and-paste operation, the source and sink have to agree on 
a data format that they both support.  I suspect that Firefox and 
Chrome offer different rich text formats.  Since Chrome is related to 
WebKit, they can agree on a rich text format for the paste.  However, 
Firefox and WebKit can't agree, and so we fall back to plain text.

I'm a bit surprised by this, honestly.  I'd have thought that both 
would just use HTML as their rich text format.  I guess that would have 
been too sensible.

Robert


On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Federico Bruni <fede inventati org> 
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can anyone confirm this small issue?
>
> Copied from Chrome..
>
> and pasted with right-click:
> Bug 714000 - Save remote inline image
> and pasted with Shift-Ctrl-V:
> Bug 714000 - Save remote inline image
>
> Copied from Firefox (version 38.0.1)...
> and pasted with right-click:
> Bug 714002 - Save inline image sent via a data: URI
>
> and pasted with Shift-Ctrl-V:
> Bug 714002 - Save inline image sent via a data: URI
>
> Now trying in detached window:
>
> Bug 730495 - inline composer: weird behaviour of paste
>
> I don't know if the issue above is related...