Bug#410123: klipper: clearing the clipboard does not clear the clipboard history

[J S Bygott <jsb_no_spm@jsbygott.fsnet.co.uk>]

Package: klipper
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: wishlist

I think 'clear clipboard' should clear the clipboard history file.
(Currently, the file is only cleared if one empties the clipboard and
 then saves the empty clipboard on program exit.)

Suppose that, after using klipper for some days, user does two things:
 -- clears the clipboard
 -- changes from "save clipboard contents" to "don't save"

Then user's old, already-saved clipboard remains on file at
   ~/.kde/share/apps/klipper/history2.lst
and will happily remain there for months.

This is unlikely to be what the user wanted to achieve.  It's so
unexpected that it should probably be considered a 'normal' bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages klipper depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a            4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl1                2.2.41-1          Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1               2.4.32-1          Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2              1.8-2             The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfam0                2.7.0-12          Client library to control the FAM 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.4.2-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.2.1-5           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.1.1-21        GCC support library
ii  libice6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11               0.6.5-1           GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62              6b-13             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-1    PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt              3:3.3.7-3         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                 1:1.0.1-3         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.1.1-21          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-4         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1.1.7-4           X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.1-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.1-5         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxft2                2.1.8.2-8         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                 1:1.0.1-4         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.1-4.1       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.1.0.2-5       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.1-3         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.2-2         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-13        compression library - runtime

klipper recommends no packages.

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