#5751 HIGH Never A: Clipboard objects need meaningful labels.

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#5751: Clipboard objects need meaningful labels.
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 Reporter:  legutierr  |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar      |     Version:                
 Keywords:  Update 1?  |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:             |   Blockedby:                
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 Clipboard objects need meaningful labels.

 Copy a long series of text objects into the clipboard (which is quite easy
 to end up doing when working on a long text document like a report or an
 essay), and then try to figure out which clipping is which.  If the list
 is long enough, you will exceed the size of the frame and you will see
 arrows.  Click on the arrows a few times and you won't even know where the
 beginning or the end of the clipboard is, rendering the "historical"
 nature of the clipboard almost useless.

 The lack of description also makes recovering saved clippings out of the
 Journal very impractical (and almost unusable).

 A possible solution: Text clipboard object labels could be appended with
 the first n characters of the clipping (i.e. Text: "A possible solu...").
 Other clipboard object labels could be appended with the title of the
 activity that originally spawned it, or the time it was first generated.

 A similar confusion can exist with the naming of running activity
 instances (see bug #3590 and #3225),  but I believe that this bug is more
 serious because it can make the clipboard almost impossible to use in
 certain cases, and because the user has the ability to rename an activity
 directly using the activity tab (no such option exists for clippings).

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