#1954 HIGH Untriag: Need "Paste" action on clipboard entries

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#1954: Need "Paste" action on clipboard entries
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  Reporter:  Eben    |       Owner:  tomeu    
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:           
Resolution:          |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0       |  
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Changes (by tomeu):

 * cc: marco (added)
  * milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0 => Untriaged


Comment:

 This is the best way I can think for triggering a paste in the current
 activity from the shell:

  - add a 'canPaste' method to the D-Bus activity service. If the activity
 says it can paste in the current position, the Paste option in the palette
 is enabled.

  - add a 'paste' method to the D-Bus activity service. When called, the
 activity will paste the contents of the CLIPBOARD selection in the current
 position (as if Ctrl-v was called).

 The major weakness of this approach is that, while most activities support
 some kind of paste, we require them to implement these methods. If not all
 do so, the user will be confused about why sometimes the option is enabled
 and sometimes it's not.

 I suggest this to be delayed to v1.1, as we already have a paste button in
 the Edit toolbar.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1954#comment:2>
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