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Bug 771950 - Inspector: Please make text in the CSS Selector section copyable
Inspector: Please make text in the CSS Selector section copyable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 781976
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Debugging
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-09-25 18:02 UTC by Daniel Boles
Modified: 2017-08-25 01:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.21/3.22


Description Daniel Boles 2016-09-25 18:02:07 UTC 
Currently, this text is massively informative... but not copyable at all. So if I wanted to add info to another ticket about how we could add theming to some widget in a complex hierarchy - I'd have to manually type it all out again!

Making the text copyable would alleviate this and make the CSS Selector section far more useful. At the moment, it just looks nice, and that's about all.


(As a side note, there's no 3.22 option in the Version box here. I don't know if that can be remedied generally or whether it requires adding per-product.)
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2016-09-26 15:24:18 UTC 
I've added the version
Comment 2 Daniel Boles 2016-09-26 15:38:02 UTC 
Cool, thanks for that.

Having glanced briefly at the relevant ui/c files, my guess is this is not directly possible (i.e. selecting text from a cell renderer), so currently this functionality would require something else, e.g. a button to generate the text and put it in the clipboard.

Assuming that sounds reasonable, once I get a chance, I'll see if this looks like something I can figure out.
Comment 3 Daniel Boles 2017-08-25 01:05:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 781976 ***