GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 206909
clicking on url should not give focus to maildisplay
Last modified: 2005-02-22 01:29:04 UTC
If the message list has the focus, and you click on a URL in the mail display, the message list should retain the focus.
is there any reason the mail-display should ever get focus? If not, maybe we should just not allow focus in the mail-display?
n/m, I'm a dumbass... we need it for copy/pasting stuff from the message and for using the space-bar to scroll through it
Is this really such a bad idea? Spacebar in the message list already scrolls the message pane. C&P already conflicts with the menu items which copy and paste messages, right? I'm gonna try removing GTK_CAN_FOCUS from my message pane and see how it works out.
eek! no! don't do it! I changed code to copy and paste The Right Way (tm) by copy/pasting from the widget that is in focus.
Geez... from *my* message pane. And it didn't have any visible effect, either (I could tab to it) so never mind that idea.
As a result of the UI freeze today, I'm marking all remaining non-1.0 UI bugs to 'future'. Someone reading this should only change the target back to 1.0 under the following circumstances: 1) The change would not impact documentation. (i.e., 'how to do X' would not have to be changed in any way.) 2) The change would require trivial work for the programmers involved. Most likely, only the programmers themselves are able to judge this. So, if you are not on the evo team, or cannot provide a patch to them for this, you should probably not make any such changes. Sorry that this is going to impact so many irritating bugs, but we have to prioritize our limited resources.
Is there any way to actually implement this?
by clicking on the link, you by defenition have to focus the widget. there's no way around that afaik. besides, I've now fixed evolution mail so that Edit/Select All and Edit/Copy do the Right Thing (tm) when the mail-display is in focus. If you make it so that you can't focus the mail-display, then thoat code becomes worthless.
It's obnoxious to lose keyboard control of the mailer every time you click on a url. There are various ways this could be implemented. For instance, the code could explicitly redo the focus after calling gnome_url_show.
Created attachment 41216 [details] [review] gtkhtml patch to allow this behavior
Has this patch been commited? What's the status on this?
No, the patch hasn't been committed. Lewing, what do you think?
No longer a 1.2 milestone. Futuring
still valid in evolution1.5-1.5.90.0.200407191630-0.snap.ximian.8.1.
this is not a bug. if you click on a link the link must gain focus. then you can use tab to scan through all links, etc.