GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 790263
[alarm-notify] URLs in Location field should be clickable
Last modified: 2017-11-29 18:04:27 UTC
These days, more and more meeting are held electronically and this means that the "Location" fields in calendar appointments more and more often have URLs (hangouts, gotomeeting, skype, whatever) rather than the names of meeting rooms or addresses. When I open an appointment, if the Location field contains URLs they are not clickable so I have to copy and paste them. When I get a calendar alert window the Location field is not a text box, and not only is the URL in that section not clickable but it's not even selectable, so I can't cut and paste it into a browser: I have to go open the appointment in order to cut and paste the URL. It would be great if these issues could be resolved, thanks!
Thanks for a bug report. I'm not sure with the component editor, that's editable and can be a problem (there is a code to handle the same in Description, but those are different widgets with different rules). The part in appointment notification is doable and makes perfect sense to me. I only thought that the URLs are more often written into the Description, rather than into the location. Or maybe it just used to be.
I made the Location label both selectable (thus the text can be selected and copied out of it) and the links (and email addresses) clickable as well. No change in the component editor had been done. Created commit 7d5b0442eb in evo master (3.27.3+) Created commit 403c59129b in evo gnome-3-26 (3.26.3+)
Will this make URLs in the "description" pane clickable also?
(In reply to Brian J. Murrell from comment #3) > Will this make URLs in the "description" pane clickable also? Those are already (as long as they are "underlined"). Just hold Ctrl key down and click on the underlined link. It may eventually change the mouse cursor to a hand or something, or it used to with some older gtk/gdk/evo code.
I see. I even see the mouse-over telling me that if I let the mouse still long enough to get the mouse-over. Thanks!