For example, the MRU file list, and the thumbnail views on the Start Center both implement onmouseover tooltip popups showing full URI path to the document. It would be useful to be able to capture these and other similar information tooltips to system clipboard.
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(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #0) > It would be useful to be able to capture these and other similar information > tooltips to system clipboard. "It would be useful" is not a use case. And there is no prototype where tooltips are copied; users cannot figure this out. IOW (and in an overly harsh phrasing): copying a tooltip is abusing a different feature. Issues like bug 169909 should be solved differently. Strong -1
Actually, Windows has long offered the PowerToy "Text Extractor" applet. Which has been incorporated into the "Snipping Tool" (<⊞>+<Shift>+S) as a new snipping mode. It holds the LO app frame open blocking any time out and allows cursor selection of a screen area holding text of interest. Unfortunately, it then only performs OCR against the screen text. But fidelity is really quite good (at least for en-US locale). Grabbing text of generic tooltip or error message popups is facilitated. Numerous uses for that text once isolated. Performing QA and providing user assistance being a common need. Suggestion here is, rather than depending on OCR of screen grab, to maybe provide a navigable stack of the recent tooltips LO has activated, with their *exact localized text* available to select and place on system clipboard. Expect it could be a SB content panel, or a simple nonmodal dialog. Or something else, any number of ways to make the specific LO strings available to user. Advantage then would be that the exact text LO is placing on the UI could be made available. No OCR vagaries.
Again +1