Yakuake is a great drop-down terminal, but often I find the need to store several things on my clipboard, and was thinking a yakuake-like program that has tabbed sessions of kate/kwrite would be really useful as well.
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Why not use a KDE panel with the sticky note widget?
its funny you mention that, for some time i have thinking about mor or less that, maybe a brainstorm about this will be interesting.
personally i can't deal when the clipboard empty itself after close the source window...
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Klipper is nice, but mauybe we can do something like add slots in the classic ctr-c (or ctr-ins) like :
ctr-c = normal copy to clipboard
ctr-c a = also copy to slot a
ctr-v = paste clipboard
ctr-v a = paste slot a
just a 4am idea... saludos.
Have you tried klipper? It lives in the system tray.
I've been thinking about making something similar.
What I would like is a plasmoid where I can drag&drop or Ctrl+C/V stuff that I would like to keep. And I would like to ability to give the snippets names and search for them quickly.
When working with e.g. LaTeX it's always nice to be able to save away a commonly used constructs.
I'm a Vim user and I know I could let my editor take care of this, but a more general solution would be nice.
Maybe call it Snippets Applet or something.
I find this a very interesting idea. I would expand it to include a yakuake like filemanager.
As much as I love yakuake, I allways tought it was implemented in the wrong layer.
It should be kwin's job to:
* hide/show chosen program in yakuake fashion
* turn the titlebar into program tabs
* easily add/remove programs to the list
* displace the titlebar
* use default move/resize actions to set the edge and sizes of the "yaquake-like" window.
Sam: I like the drop-down hotkey-activated interface. It's why I'm such a big fan of Yakuake (among other reasons).
Draconiak: The extra keyabord shortcuts are a good idea, that way I can open it afterward if I really care about it. I should start a brainstorm on that KDE Brainstorm thing I heard about.
Theuns: It does, it's ok. I want this to live where Yakuake does, the drop-down space. It's quicker to access, and far more directly editable. Sometimes I don't just want to select text I've copied, I want to change it a bit.
elvis: An applet is interesting too, and could be another implementation of this. I don't use very many applets, but I use drop-down Yakuake a ton, which is the motivation for this. However, the functionality that this program would have could be abstracted so it could be reused in an applet.
ManagementBoy: Yes! Actually in a larger sense, I think having drop-down versions of many programs is a useful idea, especially for things you want always running, but you don't want to alt+tab through currently-running instances. Dolphin (file manager) is another great candidate for this, as managing files is another very common task I don't want to reopen Dolphin for every time.
Moltonel: Maybe. I'm not sure exactly where KWin ends and application space begins, but going with my previous comment, _many_ applications should be "yakuakable" at a higher level. I'm just not sure KWin is it.
As Molotonel suggested, maybe what's needed is a Yakuake-like kwin extension, that at the press of a button would slide in your application of choice (konsole/knotes/dolphin/etc). That way you wouldn't need to reinvent/recreate the wheel for each Yakuake-like application.
I vote for the kwin extension!
my vote for a general kwin extension too.
I made a similar suggestion earlier. Look here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Apps+as+plasmoids+?content=108172
Hopefully someone will implement this in the near future. :)
Pro-Tip:
1) Change yakuake global hotkey to "Break" or "Scroll Lock" (depending on keyboard)
2) Unused key -> very often used key
3) Even faster access as F12
4) ...
5) Profit!
Yeah. A drawer window. You should be able to send a window to the 'drawer', which is basically a slide-out window with tabs. Maybe give apps an API to integrate better with this, but don't limit it to KDE apps only.
I could certainly find a use for a set of browsers in a drawer and KDevelop full-screen.
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