Native popups when copying Japanese text

[Bakadori]

Is there a way to make this more selective? This option is extremely useful but I don't necessarily want to look up every Japanese text I copy. If such thing can be implemented, it would be great to have the popup actually come on top of the other application when I do want to search.

Also, maybe because its different resolution or arrangement, when I do the copying in my secondary screen the popup opens too up, it's upper half off-screen. If I resize the popup, it comes down becoming entirely visible.

Total newbie, excuse me if this is not the right place to post this.

[toasted-nutbread]

Is there a way to make this more selective?

This depends on what you mean by "more selective". The application would need a way to determine what your intent is. It may be possible to add support for a global keyboard shortcut that can be configured, if that is helpful.

If such thing can be implemented, it would be great to have the popup actually come on top of the other application when I do want to search.

I'll have to experiment some more with this, but this may not be possible. I know Windows likes to restrict the conditions under which a new window will take focus, and unfortunately the popup window cannot be set to be always-on-top (at least not without installing another extension component).

Also, maybe because its different resolution or arrangement, when I do the copying in my secondary screen the popup opens too up, it's upper half off-screen. If I resize the popup, it comes down becoming entirely visible.

I may look into making the size/positioning of the native window more configurable; I think it's possible to make it take up a half/quadrant of a screen, maybe similar to how the (Windows key + Arrow key) functionality works.

[Bakadori]

This depends on what you mean by "more selective". The application would need a way to determine what your intent is. It may be possible to add support for a global keyboard shortcut that can be configured, if that is helpful.

I suppose the way to go is a shortcut, or some sort of keystroke (copying twice in rapid succession, like a double click? I don't know the first thing about writing code, so I'm bound to propose something silly).

By the way, I totally forgot about this, but the Copy Popup is a blessing in other apps because hover+SHIFT only works in the browser, but in the browser is sort of redundant to me? Can this be configurable? Disabling Copy Popup in the browser for example.

I hope you can make the size/positioning of the popup more configurable, even if the always on top isn't possible.

[toasted-nutbread]

The shortcuts and window configuration settings have been added.

By the way, I totally forgot about this, but the Copy Popup is a blessing in other apps because hover+SHIFT only works in the browser, but in the browser is sort of redundant to me? Can this be configurable? Disabling Copy Popup in the browser for example.

This is not as easy to do, unfortunately. Due to the way that clipboard changes are detected, there would be a race condition for detecting clipboard changes on browser tabs vs globally, which would inevitably cause flaky behaviour. For now, I am deciding to now implement this feature due to possible inconsistent/bad user experience.

However, at some point, the clipboard change detection may need to be updated altogether due to browser extension architecture changes (#1247), so depending on what happens there, this problem can be revisited. No guarantees on future feasibility though.