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Bug 623628 - Double/triple clicking should work same as other Linux applications
Double/triple clicking should work same as other Linux applications
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
3.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 632186 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-05 19:57 UTC by Jonathan Ryshpan
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:37 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jonathan Ryshpan 2010-07-05 19:57:11 UTC 
In all other Linux applications double clicking on a word selects the whole word and moving the cursor while held down selects all words from the one double clicked on to the word on which the cursor now stands.  In Evolution, moving the cursor after double clicking a word moves the start selection point to the point that the cursor was when double clicking, and the end point to the point where the cursor now stands.  I much prefer the general Linux behavior, particularly since double clicking and then moving the cursor slightly results in nothing being selected (easy to do by accident).  The same is true for triple clicking, substituting line for word.

Evolution should behave the same as other Linux applications with this respect.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2010-10-15 10:27:10 UTC 
*** Bug 632186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Andrea Mayer 2010-10-27 12:35:44 UTC 
Why is this bug an Enhancement and not a normal bug? From a user's view, it's a bug (it doesn't react as ALL other Gtk input fields on the system).

Can I help in some way to get this fixed ?
Comment 3 Terry 2012-03-10 16:56:04 UTC 
Surprised to see this issue is still outstanding actually. I've founnd it increasingly difficult to select a single word, a selection of words or a whole sentence by clicking or dragging to select text. This only seems to be with HTML emails. Using Evolution 3.2.3.
Comment 4 Jonathan Ryshpan 2012-03-10 20:10:57 UTC 
The behavior is still the same on my system, for all cases of reading and composing HTML and plain text emails.  Using Evolution 3.2.3.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:37:48 UTC 
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.