GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 772183
change cursor when hovering over links when window is unfocused
Last modified: 2016-09-30 14:48:37 UTC
Steps to reproduce: - Open epiphany and browse to any web page that includes a hyperlink - Give focus to a different window, with epiphany still visible - Hover cursor over a link in epiphany - Click the link - Expected behavior: - Cursor becomes a "pointing hand" to indicate that a link is being hovered, and clicking the link follows the link Actual behavior: - Cursor does not change when hovering the link - Clicking the link follows the link Fedora 23, epiphany 3.20.3
typo; I meant fedora 24
Hm, sharp eyes, you're right, the expected behavior for a GTK+ app is indeed to change the cursor even though the window is insensitive. Still, this would have to be fixed in WebKit. Canned reply: Thanks for taking the time to report this. This issue is most likely a bug in WebKit. Please report the bug to https://bugs.webkit.org/ including a link to this bug report and noting the version of WebKitGTK+ that you have installed. When reporting the WebKit bug, be sure to include the prefix '[GTK]' in the bug summary and select the 'WebKit Gtk' component.
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #2) > Hm, sharp eyes, you're right, the expected behavior for a GTK+ app is indeed > to change the cursor even though the window is insensitive insensitive -> unfocused
This bug is not present in Midori, which uses GTK+ (according to wikipedia[0]). Are there other Webkit GTK+ apps I could test in to confirm whether this is an epiphany-specific bug? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GTK+_applications#Web_browsers
I tested it with WebKit MiniBrowser. You don't see it in Midori because Midori is using a very old (and insecure) version of WebKit that didn't have this bug. You can check the behavior with modern WebKit in Devhelp or Yelp.
Created https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162786