Feature Request: Accessibility setting for globally disabling/enabling the clipboard

[forestfuturist]

@forestfuturist

@guss77

Unlike other operating systems, in Plasma the clipboard has an icon that shows you stuff and let’s you configure extra clipboard features that Plasma offers, and if you don’t like to use them, you can disable the clipboard icon but you aren’t allowed to disable the clipboard itself.

I think that having the option to disable the actual clipboard is a good idea: you can prevent an entire class of vulnerabilities (fat-finger-error/human error), which would be extremely useful in security-critical usecases.

For example, when working with financial data or crypto stuff, you have to be really careful to not accidentally copy/paste sensitive data somewhere it doesn’t belong, and you have to manually empty the clipboard all the time (which isn’t foolproof either, considering that doesn’t 100% protect you while you’re working with the data, only when you’re done).
If you know in advance that you’re not gonna use the clipboard in a scenario where clipboard functionality introduces vulnerablities, it makes a lot more sense to have this option instead.

It could be a simple toggle in Klipper settings or the accessibility settings.

What I posted in another thread on the topic.