No way of copying content when fake seleciton is active

[jodator]

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Select a widget like image, table or create a row/column selection inside table.
2. Long press on selected area (image, table cells, etc).

✔️ Expected result

There is a way of copying a selected part of the content.

❌ Actual result

• For images: Chrome's selected image actions popup is displayed.
• For other contemt: the "paste into collapsed seleciton" (AFAICS) options are displayed (so I can only paste into selection.

📃 Other details

• Browser: Chrome Android
• OS: Android
• CKEditor version: latest stable

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[jodator]

One thing came to my mind of how this could be fixed: A dedicated copy (paste & cut buttons also) for mobiles. It might be enabled only for mobile environments (conditional/dedicated mobile: section?). Another thing is to where to display such button. It would be nice to have somewhere near the selected content (widget outline? next to the "select handle"?)

[mlewand]

Definitely needs tome input from @oleq. I wonder whether the issue is also occurring on iOS?

If so we we should mark it with label domain:mobile.

[oleq]

This is somehow related to ckeditor/ckeditor5-design#149.

And yes, we may want some dedicated toolbar displayed on mobiles but this is just a piece of a bigger UX problem. Anyway, just for starters we could add these buttons to image/table toolbars (or to widget toolbar repository as a generic widget feature?) and display them on touch devices only.

cc @panr

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