GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 118539
Double click should select all smartbookmark text (like location entry)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I would like for the "Search the Web" text entry box (Search the Web selected from the bookmarks dialog to show on the bookmark bar) to highlight the entire previous entry when clicked. Triple-clicking w/ GTK is nice but not as quick :). A keybinding to that box would be nice also. Similar to Ctrl + L to go to the address entry box.
Created attachment 18701 [details] Screenshot of the "Search the Web" entry box
I tend to think this should be at least consistent with address bar.Though in this case double click -> select word could be more useful.So I dont think we should do autoselect unless we do it for addressentry. IHMO the alternatives are double click select all/keep it as is.Dave what do you think ?
well imo, i've never found click for word very much useful. The double click behavior is pretty nice though, so maybe we should add that. As a practical matter i'm guessing autoselection is bad, if only for the reason that it may steal primary selection, leading to some nasty flames coming our ways.
Nautilus's 'Location' entry and the gnome-panel 'Run Application' applet both highlight *individual words* on double-click. Apparently, Galeon's location entry does, too. I think the Epiphany 'Location' entry should follow suit. Right now it highlights the entire address on double-click, which is inconsistent with the rest of GNOME and annoying if you want to change the "google" in "www.google.com" or the part after the final "/" in a URL. After all, triple-click highlights the entire entry.
Since there is really no evidence changing the behavior would be any better, let's keep the default widget behavior.