Design tentative

[teamcons]

I am a bit new at this, it fairly sucks, but i suggest the following (and can try to figure out the code as well)

-Amount of entries could be defined by a dconf key. 5, 8 or 10 should be enough for most usage, though.

-The clear button just empties everything. It doesnt need a shortcut though. It isnt that important a function if we value simplicity.

-We could signify whether text or file with an icon on the right. I am not sure how difficult that would be. Text only is often enough for clipboards however.

-The toggle is more of a random pipe dream. You'd CTRL-V twice quickly (under a second) to paste the second entry. But im not sure capturing keypresses is that easy to do, especially on Wayland.

EDIT: Saw your comment and the idea of pinning. How useful would it be to store entries vs how difficult would it be to implement ?

[teamcons]

[teamcons]

List expands as new elements are added, limited to a dconf setting int set at 10
I cant do a pinned icon, but either the pinned element keeps its position, or gets in a section at bottom, separated by a divider (i will work later on a design for latter)

[teamcons]

Pinned. The element is removed from the list. (Which visually annoys me, to be honest. It feels like the whole thing changes. But it would make sense)

[jeremypw]

Some good ideas - thanks!

I think a "Clear Button" could be useful, especially in conjunction with pinned items, to clear out "noise", but in general elementaryos tries for a minimal useful design.

Not sure about the multiple key-press "quick paste" if I understand it correctly. Anything relying on timing could cause accessibility problems and is not very discoverable. You could have a special hot-key combination that includes a number though to select a particular entry. This can only work while the popover is open and has keyboard focus though.

Using icons to identify type is a good idea if the scope expands to multiple content types.

This should really be in a discussion as it touches several issues, but personal accounts don't seem to have them? Anyway, separate issues for each discrete idea makes tracking a lot easier. And different people can work on unrelated issues.

[teamcons]

It does. I can open one for every feature, but i am uncertain how much you would like to invest on this.

Personally i'd be perfectly happy with a text-only popover with a limit of 5 or 10 entries. The above but no pin no icons. I can maybe do that myself with your draft - theres enough there for me to try and learn vala in the process. But i probably cant much further than that

like you said, it may be not worthwhile. I am not sure if the existing apps work with wayland though.

[jeremypw]

You are welcome to submit PRs to this repo as a learning experience but, from my experience you have to be prepared for the fact a majority of code that gets written will never get used. So it helps if you have plenty of free time and just enjoy coding. I'd see if @danirabbit gives it a thumbs up before devoting too much time to it, at least as wingpanel plugin. I may look into whether it works as a Flatpak at some point because it can then be submitted to AppCenter.