GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 529568
Tomboy miscalculates the beginning and ending of file:/// links
Last modified: 2009-04-23 02:14:14 UTC
The best way to explain this is to show by example: In my tomboy note I have the following lines: ################################################## /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge stop netdev=eth1 /sbin/yast2 lan edit id=0 type=eth bootproto=static /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge start netdev=eth1 ################################################## Now, if I hover my mouse anywhere after "eth1" in the first line, it thinks I want to click on the link to "/sbin/yast2" which is in the second line. The same thing can been seen after the work "static" in the second line. If I hover my mouse anywhere after that word, it thinks I am trying to click on the link on the next line. This makes it extremely annoying to copy and paste the first line by clicking and dragging after eth1 back to the beginning of the line. I do notice that this doens't happen on an http:// link. Just seems to happen on a file:/// link.
Thanks for the report! This bug is related to bug #436994, please see my comment there for an explanation. The problem only exists for file links like "/sbin/yast2" but not when the protocol is used in the link like "file://sbin/yast2" or "http://www.gnome.org".
Yeah, I'm going to consider this the same bug. Marking as a dupe. Thanks for the test case, Matt! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436994 ***