KDE 3.0 URL popup

[Tim Wunder]

On 3/6/2003 12:28 PM, someone claiming to be Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:15:38AM +0000, Pam R wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:13, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>When I highlight a URL in an xterm under KDe 3.0.3 (SuSE 8.1) a popup comes
>>>up from the control panel at the bottom of the screen labelled WEB-Url with
>>>a selection of programs that I might want to use.  What's doing this, and
>>>what do I do to disable it?
>>
>>It's coming from the Klipper panel applet. You may be able to configure 
>>Klipper to disable this action, I don't know because I run with Klipper 
>>itself disabled 'cause I find it to be a general nuisance.
> 
> 
> And what is klipper supposed to do?

It's a clipboard tool, allowing you to keep a history of copied 
contents. You can paste from your copy history. Not a bad tool, if 
you're so inclined. KDE's mistake was turning on that Options pop-up 
dialog by default (I imagine *someone* *somewhere* finds it useful 
<shrug>).
Klipper was a hot topic of conversation not too very long ago on the 
kde-usability mailing list. 3.1's klipper has undergone significant 
change from 3.0's. FWIW and IMO, if you're gonna use KDE 3x at all, use 
3.1 (ya might wanna wait for 3.1.1, which should be coming fairly soon).

Regards,
Tim