Can not paste into web forms

[Michael Hall]

I can copy text from one app, and paste it into the URL field of the browser, but I don't get a "Paste" option for input fields in the webpage itself.

I found this when trying to log into an internal website, where SSO prompted me to perform 2-factor authentication. I generated the one time password using CanonicalAuth, and was able to copy it into the clipboard. However, I was unable to paste it into the 2fa field in the web browser.

I could paste it into the URL field, so I know it was in the clipboard. When long-pressing on the web form input field, I was given a menu with "Share", "Save" and "Copy", but not "Paste".

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

From a very quick glance, I can’t see any hooks in QtWebKit to implement pasting into a form, so I guess this would require extending the selection code (implemented in js) to allow pasting the contents of the clipboard whenever the selection is an editable form field.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

it would be desirable to have this implemented in forms. I currently cannot even paste into the url field.

[Denis Washington (dwashington)]

I consider this very important, considering that (at least on my 14.04 beta install) the webapps desktop integration feature uses the Webbrowser app instead of Firefox now.

[Matthew Gregg (mcg)]

Hit this issue with 14.04 "webapps" while trying to paste in a password from my password manager.

[Mark Rich (sir-marky)]

I too experience this problem with webapps in 14.04

[Jarek Sobiecki (harijari)]

I also confirm this issue - I cannot paste my password. This makes webapps completely unusable for me.

[Des (d-chew)]

Ditto.

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop version. It impact Yahoo!Mail and Gmail.

I am switching back to webmail so long not fixed. It's just inconvenient.

[Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj)]

Web apps can paste content copied from themselves. However, they do not export the primart selection and they ignore X cut buffers, making it impossible to copy text between a Web app and any other app. This is a huge step backward, to the time of MS-DOS, R.I.P.

[truxntrax (truxntrax)]

+1 Major pita.

[Mitchell (curious-mitchell)]

Yep, this is a massive and major oversite - love the concept of webapps, however I'm forced to use chromium instead. This just sucks. Are there any fixes in progess?

[Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)]

@Mitchell: yes there is ongoing work to fix this and properly address the issue (in Oxide, the webengine backend for webapps),

[Mitchell (curious-mitchell)]

@Alexandre: thanks for that. Is this work being backported to 14.10 on the desktop, or only present in touch versions? (i.e., Unity 8)

Thanks,

M

[Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)]

@Mitchell it should eventually be backported & will be available on desktop too

[Aldo (thewalrus)]

Also affects me with 14.10.

Wanted to use the browser for second twitter account. Ho hum.

[William Lee (wlee753159)]

Has the fix been released?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

No it hasn’t yet. Please don’t change the status of a bug if you’re unsure.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Hrm, now I can’t change the status of the webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) task back to confirmed. This is annoying.

[Alessandro Viprati (vipri-alessandro)]

Ubuntu 14.04 is still affected by this bug. Can't copy/paste text between webapps and regular apps.
Please, consider to fix this bug at least in Ubuntu 14.04, it's an LTS release after all.

Webapps are really fast and useful but we can't use them without copy/paste support.