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[Color Picker] Add setting to disable automatic copy to clipboard

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#8,389 opened on Dec 4, 2020

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Description

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Please add a simple switch to disable automatic copying to clipboard.

I was hoping selecting the opening directly to editor mode would do the trick as it's the only one in the settings that doesn't mention that it copies the value but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Why is it needed?

I might have something in the clipboard I do not wish to lose while I'm picking for a color, I'd like to have the color just wait there until I'm ready to copy it myself. I also need different color systems depending on what I do so about half the time the automatically copied value is the wrong one anyway.

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Locate the Color Picker settings module, add a boolean toggle for disabling auto copy, and update the copy behavior to check this setting.
Tech stack
csharp
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desktop
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