I am a heavy KDE user (at least 10h/day, 300 days/year) since 1998. I never ever had a problem within the requirements you describe. I only discovered that you must keep the "from" app running (WRT not losing text formatting) when this thread started... Probably I never had closed the "from" application before. :-D
Posted Jun 20, 2012 12:43 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576)
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I do have some use cases which are probably rather atypical. I'm going to try to remember to keep a log of when paste does something unexpected. Maybe there are some specific applications triggering it that I've just never noticed.