GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 794090
Since 3.27.x location entry is quite unusable
Last modified: 2018-03-05 16:35:26 UTC
I'm using ephy 3.27.90-22-ge89d8de from flatpak From 3.26.x, the location entry has changed to flicker between the URL and the web page title. This solution is not very good. * The flickering when passing the click arrow over the entry is very disturbing. * Being able to copy the web page title by using the ESC button is counter-intuitive. * The URL is lost while the page is not loaded: * When you want to load an URL of a "problematic" resource, ephy may be loading for quite a quile. If you choose to stop the loading, you will have lost the URl you entered. I'd suggest to move to something similar to what we have with the WebApps: When not editing, show 2 labels stacked with the title and the URL, when doing a simple click in that zone, changing completly into an entry ... or something similar.
Yeah, we were discussing this the other day... and will probably revert this. I think it was worth trying, though. Context: bug #791090, bug #791441 I've bumped the version number to 3.29 to make it more clear that this change isn't going into 3.28.
The flicker occurs when entering the location entry from the left or right side and passing over the security indicator or bookmarks icon. That's no good. (And we're definitely not going to release with the "hostname: title" like it is now.)
I just updated myself, and I see more problems: * Impossible to copy from context menu using mouse * The dropdown completion no longer works I think I'll revert it in master now. I don't think this will slow development.
The following fixes have been pushed: ad9f669 Revert "ephy-location-entry: Show page title within location entry if it has no focus and is not hovered." d364a0c Revert "Fix location entry test after location entry redesign"
Created attachment 369355 [details] [review] Revert "ephy-location-entry: Show page title within location entry if it has no focus and is not hovered." This reverts commit f9f7b649fb4d09f1a38644ab635348b36ab0b8cc.
Created attachment 369356 [details] [review] Revert "Fix location entry test after location entry redesign" This reverts commit 6e209f79a0b344bcb0bfc3e6a3d3005b01120c3f.