GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131190
Can't copy filename when text field is readonly
Last modified: 2005-05-22 14:22:49 UTC
When a file or directory is write protected, it is also impossible even to make a selection of the filename in the properties window. Of course this should be possible, it's just text input that should be disabled.
*** Bug 144133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OK, I've looked into this a bit and there's two ways to fix it. The easy way is to use gtk_editable_set_editable to turn off filename editting. This unfortunately looks somewhat bad since the cursor is still displayed leading the user to think that she can change the filename. This seems like a gtk issue, there doesn't seem like there's any good reason for a text entry box to display a cursor if the user cannot change the text. The hard way is to implement a suggestion from a comment in the code. The entry box could be removed and a static text label used instead when the file is read-only. This would be more painful to implement but would look better, except for the GUI inconsistency of sometimes having an edit box and sometimes having a static label but I don't think that would be too big of a deal. I'm willing to implement it that way as well. I'll hopefully have some patches for poeple to look at implmenting it both ways in the next couple of days.
Created attachment 33100 [details] [review] Uses gtk_editable_set_editable instead of gtk_widget_set_sensitive when file is readonly This patch implements the easier of the two methods I outlined above, hsoudl hopefully have a patch implementing the other soon.
Did someone look at this patch?
Thanks for the patch and sorry for the zero feedback up until now. However I think this was fixed via the commit at bug 149201 in the meantime, so I'm marking it as duplicate. Please reopen if I'm mistaken. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149201 ***