Liferea lacks "Copy" option in right-click menu for main body text

[Feathertail]

Binary package hint: liferea

THE PROBLEM

The right-click menu, inside the main viewing area for Liferea, does not include a "Copy" option.

HOW TO REPRODUCE

1. Click on any RSS entry that features text inside the main viewing area.

2. Select some of the body text for that entry.

3. Open a right-click menu.

4. Note that the only options are "Increase size" and "Decrease size."

5. Use Ctrl-C to copy the text instead (works fine), because there is no "Copy" in the right-click menu.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Right-clicking on highlighted text should always give you the option to copy it. ("Select All" wouldn't be bad either.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 7
Package: liferea 1.4.26-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: liferea
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine LinuxMint package

[skorasaurus (skoraw)]

I've noticed this as well. However, you can still copy text in the main viewing area by highlighting the text with your mouse and pressing Ctrl and C at the same time.

However, the author of liferea noted (back in 2007) that they will not devote time to add this feature.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1709289&group_id=87005&atid=581684

[skorasaurus (skoraw)]

link to the upstream bug page; author won't fix the problem.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1709289&group_id=87005&atid=581684