Copy and Paste in Description in macOS

Capella
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Hello,

I’m facing a problem to do copy and paste into the Description panel. I’m not able to use the toolbar (it says that the browser does not support pasting), and neither with the key binding (in case of the Mac is command+v).

Do you guys faced that problem before? Any idea how to solve it?

I’m using the Capella 6.1 / MacOS 14.2.1 on Silicon M2.

Regards,

Chris

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I think this specific component "Description panel) in the properties view is the main one you can have issue with when it comes to cross platform compatibility (Windows, Linux, Mac) because it embed a native browser (an old version of IE on Windows if I am not wrong…) and that will differ depending on the platform. But I don’t have a Mac so can’t say…
Stephane

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Fix: disable the rich-text description editor (macOS)

  1. Quit Capella

  2. In Finder, go to your Capella.app

  3. Right-click → Show Package Contents

  4. Open:
    Contents/Eclipse/capella.ini (sometimes it’s eclipse.ini depending on the bundle)

  5. Add this line after -vmargs (or anywhere in the VM args section):

    -Ddisable.nebula.richtext=true

  6. Save, reopen Capella.

After that, the Description area becomes a simpler editor (XHTML-ish), and paste generally works.

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There has been fixes (or maybe more workarounds) for Linux on this, but not sure they all have been released on the latest Capella build yet.