GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 700426
Size controls behavior
Last modified: 2018-05-24 13:42:32 UTC
Uneven behaviour of the gauge/input text controls (such as brush size). How to reproduce: Click on the text part of the control. Be extremely careful: if you miss a few pixels you will click on a gauge part of it. What should happen: Text part of the control should be selected automatically so user can type numerical values stright away like it was on GIMP 2.6. This actually happens: Nothing is selected. User have to either delete the current value manually either click 3! times to select it and start typing. This is a very annoying behavior and the reason why I cannot upgrade to GIMP 2.8.
Confirming for GIMP on Windows and OS X. That UI control is new in 2.8. It behaves as follows: - 1st click: control is focused, use up/down spinbuttons to modify the value - 2nd click: select the numbers part before or behind the comma, depending on where you click - 3rd click: select the whole number No matter how often the user clicks that control or whether he/she clicks the numbers before or behind the comma, the up/down spinbuttons always increase/decrease the numeric value by 1. It seems, that this is by intention. I found no spec for this in the GUI wiki [1]. @Peter Sikking: can you answer this, please? [1] gui.gimp.org
Clicking a spinbutton/entry never selected anything, focussing it via the focus chain (tab, shift-tab) always did. This behavior has not changed since 2.6. Does tab not select all the content for you? Sven, there is no spec for this behavior because it's the default GtkSpinButton behavior.
Created attachment 247698 [details] Selecting in GIMP 2.6
Despite just clicking on a control indeed won't select anyting on GIMP 2.6 user is able to select the entry content with one click and swift movement. On 2.8 it's very hard to do - elements of a control are positioned too tight and seem to overlap each over. Trying to select text moving mouse from the right user more likely will click on a gauge element or up/down buttons. The same gauge element is on a way if user will try to select text from the left and even if he select text he will always miss first digit of it.
Created attachment 247699 [details] Possible solution
*** Bug 724990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think this feels much better since Ell added highlighting to the upper and lower areas of the scale. At least it's more obvious what will happen. Suggest to close this as WONTFIX. Opinions?
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