Right now external paste always writes the clipboard as formatted; in some cases, users will want to "Paste Unformatted".
On Mac, there's a standard shortcut for this of Cmd+Shift+V - I'm assuming that Ctrl+Shift+V would be sensible as well.
Would we also need a button? What about for the other standard 3 (Cut/Copy/Paste)?
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Severity: enhancement
ctrl+shift+v in Open Office is "paste special", which gives lots of non-default options so it doesn't seem out of line. Not sure a separate button is needed but if button=shortcut then shift+button should = shift+shortcut
In general I think its best to cut/copy richly to the clipboard and let the target deal with the formatting. I don't know whether this view is common or uncommon though,
(In reply to comment #1)
ctrl+shift+v in Open Office is "paste special", which gives lots of
non-default
options so it doesn't seem out of line. Not sure a separate button is needed
but if button=shortcut then shift+button should = shift+shortcut
We don't need a button to have a shortcut (but we do for users without a keyboard, or with a limited keyboard that can't do shortcuts, like tablet users).
In general I think its best to cut/copy richly to the clipboard and let the
target deal with the formatting. I don't know whether this view is common or
uncommon though,
I agree personally, but people have asked for it a few times and it's a not-hard change for us to make when pasting from the clipboard.
Change 88224 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders:
Plain text paste with paste special