Clear saved items after time about gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator

[SUPERCILEX]

Oh wait, I just tried to close this issue and realized this isn't my repo lol. So ignore everything I just said since Tudmotu might want to do this.

[SUPERCILEX]

You can delete items on reboot and limit the total number of items saved and their storage. Any reason you want Cron job style deletion?

[WyskyNet]

It's all about my use case:

• i rebooting notebook only if some kernel update needs it
• i am a web developer so i use copy paste more than often :)

So deleting clipboard items after some predefined time (for example 30 minutes) will be better solution than deleting history manually after work... at least in case of some sensitive content.

[SUPERCILEX]

Ah, that makes sense but isn't going to happen. If people gain access to your machine, you should consider yourself fully compromised. I don't see the point in trying properly delete data and don't wish to focus on that, but if you're concerned you could delete the database file every day and try overwriting it. Though the delete on reboot option doesn't store anything on disk so that seems closer to what you're looking for.

[Tudmotu]

@WyskyNet you want it to be deleted automatically?
What if you are in the middle of work and suddenly all your clipboard items are deleted?

[whym]

How about deleting the newest item in the clipboard history if it's older than X hours? While it's not perfect (since you can work while not copying anything), I think it's a good enough proxy of detecting the user's continued absence.

Some use cases of this don't require the computer to be compromised. One example I can think of is: the user works on sensitive things using the clipboard, calls it a day (without clearing the clipboard history), starts the next work day with an online meeting, shares the screen, uses the clipboard history, and accidentally shows an old entry from the previous day.

[vlagorsse]

I would also love this feature.

It's not exactly about having all the items wiped every now and then, it's about time limiting each entry in the history. Having a time limit based on copying time or even last pasted time for each entry would be perfect for me.

To be honest, 2 hours after having copied something, I think this is preferable to be deleted.

[Tudmotu]

I like this idea. I would definitely be willing to merge a PR.

If anyone would like to work on this:

• It should be configurable in settings
• Need to find out if there's a better way to achieve other than setInterval
• Basically need to keep the timestamp on the ClipboardEntry and then iterate the clipboard every 10 seconds or something and delete expired entries