GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 377772
Double-click-drag to select multiple words doesn't work
Last modified: 2009-05-27 20:43:09 UTC
When viewing a webpage, double-click-drag does not select text per word/fragment like gedit, abiword, etc. It's rather hard "aiming" per character to select text. Other information:
And so I learn something new every day. I agree that this functionality would be nice but I fear that it's something that can only be done in Gecko.
The same goes for epiphany's location bar. It would be nice if it worked like the location bar from nautilus (2.16.2). Really useful to select only parts of a path. I suspect this to be GTK+ or Pango functionality as a simple pygtk application with a gtk.Entry behaves the same as the nautilus bar. import gtk win = gtk.Window() entry = gtk.Entry() entry.set_text('/home/test/something') win.add(entry) win.show_all() gtk.main()
I can imagine that people wanting to change a world in the middle of the url would rather select it than double-click on it. Double click takes equal effort than click and select and I don't see it more intuitive. In the case of Nautilus, you are expected to know your directory hierarchy and even then you are not expected to use the location entry but the navigation buttons. In the case of Epiphany, you are not expected to know about the site's url hierarchy and so you wouldn't find useful to be able to do that.
I'm not sure if I'm parsing comment #3 correctly. Are you saying it is intuitive for an entry (epiphany's location bar) to behave completely different from any other entry I could find on my Gnome desktop? Double-click-drag takes a whole lot _less_ effort to select text as you don't have to aim your cursor between 2 characters to start a selection and again to end it. Just loosely aim the word and off you go, again loosely aim the last word you want selected et voila. Please, it is irrelevant what I'm expected to know from a directory/url hierarchy. It is, however, relevant how people expect a simple entry to behave. Especially a highly visible, highly used one like epiphany's location bar. Every entry I could find uses: - single-click to place caret, - single-click-drag to select text per charachter, - double-click to select a fragment, - double-click-drag to select text per pragment and - triple-click to select a line That aside, it would be cool if the location bar would get fixed, but it should probably get it's own bugreport? Let's focus on my original report, being all the things on that list working correctly when working with the rendered html, except for double-click-drag. Thanks
The original report from comment 0 needs to be researched on b.m.o.
I'm currently using Epiphany 2.26.2, built against xulrunner-1.9.0.10, glib-2.20.2, gtk+-2.16.1, pango-1.24.2 and noticed this has been solved. The location bar issues from comment #4 have also been solved. I did not, however, find any info on bugs.mozilla.org (I have a feeling I'm not using the correct search keywords...) Don't know when this happened as I noticed this by accident. After the bug report I took the habbit of single-click dragging inside epiphany, until today I double-click dragged and remembered this report. Can this report be closed? Thanks :)
Yes, this has been fixed a while ago. Thanks!