Comment 2 for bug 1064940

Hi.
Thanks for reviewing.
As a coder myself I agree that technically it's more a whishlist item, an unsupported feature.
As a coder myself I understand why it might be different.

From a users point of view it's definitively a bug.
From a users point of view a text field with an empty text might exist - at least, as long as the cursor is blinking on the canvas, I consider that as an existing text field.

To get a text field only containing e.g. a theta glyph, I therefore have the following options currently:
1) type any other character, select theta in the glyphs dialog, insert it, press LEFT, delete the space again.
2) select the theta in the glyphs dialog, copy it to the clipboard (e.g. by Ctrl+C), create a new text field (from a users point of view, as it's technically no textfield as long as there's no text; to be clear: click on the canvas after selecting the text tool), and insert it by Ctrl+V again.

It's strange, that adding a character using the glyph dialog is not possible - I would have suggested that it's nothing different from the second variant; it appends a string to the given String (while the empty string is not equal to NULL)