The big thing that bugs me about the ‘ref’ objects on the clipboard is: although the basic drag’n’drop Clipboard feature works, ‘ref’ objects have no access to ANY of the advanced features. It had no context menu. So there’s no: making it the active object, make a Custom Filter with it, open the related Edit Object dialog. (Which is reasonable since the target for some of those Actions is ambiguous.)
This lead me to prompt Claude to add a Context Menu item to “Clip” the related ‘parent’ object :
That ‘clipped’ object has more context (less ambiguity) and gives access to the full object context menu
And while looking at populating a clipboard from a context menu, I’d always longed for way to explode the hierarchy of enclosing places to the clipboard:
Since I always lose track of from where an undocked Gramplet (particularly a Collections Clipboard) was spawned, I prompted Claude to tweak the grampletpanel.py so that the Close (which doesn’t ‘close’ but instead ‘re-docks’ the gramplet) was more accurate and informative. So now it informs that the click will Dock the floating dialog and indicators of where (category view mode and Sidebar/Bottombar) it will be docked.
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