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Thanks for your ideas.

1. There has been an idea that a similar extension could be developed for gedit. There is an issue with that though currently as only plugins of diodon can access the clipboard history. Addons for Firefox or gedit can not do that. There is a similar issue for a better gnome3 integration https://blueprints.launchpad.net/diodon/+spec/better-gnome3-integration So before this can be done a way to access Diodon across processes need to be implemented. At the moment we are testing whether DBus could be such a interface.

2. This also sounds interesting. We would have the same issue as pointed out in point 1 though.

4. I don't know whether this would confuse people even more. I see the current implementation as a way to show recent clipboard items in a menu. And this is implemented such as other Recent lists let say of gedit, LibreOffice etc. where a file is put on the top of the list when it is the most recent being opened or in the case of Diodon copied.
I do see though that the list of recent items in Diodon has its caveats. I would rather see that someone wants to paste a content but does not care when in the past it was copied. We are currently working on this that Diodon can store a history which is unlimited or limited in time and not number of items. See here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/diodon/+spec/zeitgeist-integration
This would make idea 2 also much more worthwhile.

5. As stated in point do I think is the order not so crucial but rather that the history can be accessed easily. I do think though that this should be implementable with a Diodon plugin. Added it therefore to "Ideas for Plugins" here https://blueprints.launchpad.net/diodon/+spec/ideas-for-plugins

There is certainly lots to be done which can improve Diodon. As we are working on it is though any help very much appreciated.

Oliver

Thank you Oliver.

I see your point about gnome...Its hard to know how to implement such a "system wide" feature...
I should also point out that I am writing this from a Ubuntu 12.10 installation. Gnome3 window manager.

About point 1. and the paste as submenu....and your suggestion. Its about gedit and I was thinking more of any application.
Any way to have the "paste" item (righ click menu) inside any application actually trigger the ctrl-alt-v choice subemenu...that would come close to what I was thinking about... for point 1.

2. Would you be able to direct me on where or who to ask regarding placing a button near any text field in any window/application in gnome...
The idea is to get to the point or bit that creates the text field and have it draw a small clickable button at creation...To begin with it could invoke the ctrl-alt-v action list . I have no idea who to turn to for help or ask for such a change/feature.
X windows Server or Gnome3??or some other place to hunt/down look for?
3. well I suppose I meant the ctrl-alt-v keyboard combo that I then saw in the preferences menu ;)...no bother there.
4.That way of having items appear and "move" described by you is the norm I suppose.
My point would be that when I copy a group of lines say from a particular webpage, I get the sense of using those in a particular order and knowing they stay grouped together (like you point out by time being copied into the clipboard) gives me a sense of where roughly to look for them when quick paste is needed....Such a work technique means I expect them to stay roughly positioned "against" each others position to stay the same. In an example say I have a telephone , then a First Name then a Second Name and then the address.... Knowing that the items stay in that order in relation to their position to each other gives me the ability to qucikly do my pasting without reading the full line/lines.... or getting confused and judging if its a first name , second name or whatever....I can simply judge the position of the item knowing it is the first name. Saves a lot of energy from having to re-read the whole line eacht time I switch the pasted item before deciding what it is....

I see you have added the 5th suggestion. It would make even more sense for when using 4 the way I have suggested.

Oliver another caveat for improving speed and ease use on the "static items" is to have the plugin/diodon clipboard is to display a data type(label) for the actual string. I mean for Example "Nikita K. Tsarov" when copied as static item to display as
"First name -> Nikita K. Tsarov" but when selected or pasted to paste as "Nikita K. Tsarov" only. The best way of doing so I would deem is to use a saved LibreOffice spreadsheet where one of the columns holds the LABEL such as First name and the second column the actual data "Nikita K. Tsarov".
Changing static entries/items may simply mean load another LibreOffice spreadsheet.

 I make the suggestion but dont even have the slightest idea of how this is to be done or where to start looking/asking?? Any info?
I really think this last suggestion and numbering would allow a lot of improvement in ter

Thanks Oliver Sauder, that solved my question.