GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 208837
Link dialog confusing
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
To insert a link: Choose Insert-->Link. You will start on the Second tab of a two-tab dialog where you are prompted for the URL. 1) this should start on the first tab. If you want to start with the URL, have that be the first tab. Then, you switch to the other tab, where you choose a style for your text. You cannot, however, enter any text in the big white box-- that's just for the sample. Then you click "Apply" and "Close" (OK, for some reason, is greyed out) and only then can you begin typing some text to use for your link. It is not clear how to end the link at that point. It would be best to have the box labelled "SAMPLE" be renamed to "Displayed Text" and have it be a text-entry widget rather than a text-display widget. Then, when you click "OK" the link is inserted, text and all, at the cursor point.
Re-assigning this to 1.0 because the 'SAMPLE' text really should be re-done. The focus issues... well, if they are trivial, they should be done, otherwise, future them.
Let me add that the default link color for links i insert (not links that are detected when I insert etc. etc.) is exactly the same as the plain text color. It should be, need I state, blue with an underline. Boy is this behavior totally broken. Is this a gtkhtml thing?
No wait. This isn't as broken as I thought. It seems to be underlining in black now. However, rightclick-->Link brings up a different dialog than Insert-->Link, which I find weird.
Yes, GtkHTML
AFAICT, this behavior is completely broken ATM- I can't seem to insert a link at all...
This is indeed pretty broken. It works slightly better if you select text first, but yuck :(
Okay I fixed the color issue, the text issue is a ui problem but the dialog should work better now.
Re-triaging/targeting.
link insertion dialog redone, so closing. reopen/contact me if you have any suggestions/complaints about the new one