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Bug 556095 - losing text formatting while copying and pasting
losing text formatting while copying and pasting
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 624002
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
0.12.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
: 570336 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-13 06:14 UTC by bugra
Modified: 2016-10-15 18:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description bugra 2008-10-13 06:14:45 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
while copy and pasting the text formatting is lost

Steps to reproduce:
1. format some text (e.g. bold, italic, etc) in a note or some other application (e.g. ms word)
2. copy the text
3. paste into an other note or an other application (e.g. ms word)



Actual results:
the text formatting is lost while copying formatted text from a note;
the text formatting is also lost while pasting a formatted text to a note.

Expected results:
that the text formatting is preserved - as it is on linux.

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2008-10-13 12:15:39 UTC 
This is probably an issue with gtk+, but we'll have to look into it.
Comment 2 Sandy Armstrong 2009-02-03 15:34:22 UTC 
*** Bug 570336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Sandy Armstrong 2009-02-03 15:34:42 UTC 
From the dupe:

If you make a set of bullet at various indentations, then cut and paste
into another note, two problems arise:

1) It is not pasted as "bulleted" text.  The bullet character is pasted, but
the type of the paragraph is not bulleted

2) Since the type of the paragraph is not bulletted, the indent level is also
lost.
Comment 4 Alex Tereschenko 2016-10-15 17:53:48 UTC 
This does not work for me neither on Windows not on Linux (to the contrary of what was stated in the description, where Linux reportedly worked).

So either this was never actually working or got completely broken/changed. In general I would not expect the meta-data for text formatting to be propagated between various programs using different means of express the formatting on the backend (with the disclaimer that I don't know how that works on Linux under GNOME, maybe there's some standard, but apparently that doesn't work any more if it ever did). So if this is still relevant to anyone - please feel free to open a new one at GitHub: https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues
Comment 5 Alex Tereschenko 2016-10-15 18:31:22 UTC 
Ok, after reading bug 624002 and related it looks like it should actually work and there's maybe even a patch for that (though untested). Let me mark this one as a duplicate and continue the work there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 624002 ***