TextArea should allow mouse selections if mouse present

[Xavier Guillot]

When I write a message and want to replace, delete or copy part of the text, I am unable to select it with the mouse, left button pressd and moving it to cover all words needed.

If I do that, text is not highlighted but there is a sub-menu which comes and proposes "Select all", "Select word", "Paste", "Undo".

It's fine but not very easy, I prefer - like in any other application - be able to select many words or rows by moving mouse with left button pressed.

Here it is possible to double-click on 1 word and select it, then click anywhere in the window to unselect.

Also, it is possible to do "Ctrl + A" which selects all the text, but then impossible to unselect just by clicking one time in the message window, I have to double click whichs selects the last word of the message, and then again one click to uneselect.

I don't know if this behavior is volunteer but it's not very practical on a desktop PC. I guess there are features for smartphones and tablets UI, where there is no mouse but direct finger selection, and it sounds logical, but please adapt when Friends is used on a computer if possible !

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Another problem with this Ubuntu Touch UI is the lack of scrollbar on desktop PC : OK there is a "Top" button to go back to the top of Timeline, very useful, but when I want to move up or down through a long Timeline, I can't do it as there is no scrollbar to the right like in other applications, I have to scroll with the middle button of mouse. It's longer than just click on scrollbar and move fast...

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:~ubuntu-sdk-team/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/staging at revision None, scheduled for release in ubuntu-ui-toolkit, milestone Unknown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 0.1.46+14.10.20140502.6-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (0.1.46+14.10.20140502.6-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Tarmac ]
  * [ Zoltán Balogh]   * Skip tests only for powerpc   [ Christian Dywan
    ]   * Use locale format specifier in textfield_numbers. (LP:
    #1311907, #1283236, #1285958, #1124071, #1256424, #1276172,
    #1228042, #1183255, #1283212, #1168914, #1273187, #1276821,
    #1308086, #1288937, #1292601)

  [ Zoltán Balogh ]
  * [ Zoltán Balogh]   * Skip tests only for powerpc   [ Christian Dywan
    ]   * Use locale format specifier in textfield_numbers. (LP:
    #1311907, #1283236, #1285958, #1124071, #1256424, #1276172,
    #1228042, #1183255, #1283212, #1168914, #1273187, #1276821,
    #1308086, #1288937, #1292601)

  [ tpeeters ]
  * [ Zoltán Balogh]   * Skip tests only for powerpc   [ Christian Dywan
    ]   * Use locale format specifier in textfield_numbers. (LP:
    #1311907, #1283236, #1285958, #1124071, #1256424, #1276172,
    #1228042, #1183255, #1283212, #1168914, #1273187, #1276821,
    #1308086, #1288937, #1292601)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 02 May 2014 16:31:41 +0000