Text widget does not support standard commands
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
New
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Low
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, though the bug was also present, I think, in 9.10.
When typing a message, the basic editing commands one expects a text entry box to have in the GTK+ environment do not work. For example, Ctrl+C for copy, Ctrl+Z for undo.
There are a couple different (but frequent!) usage scenarios that this causes issues for me with:
1. My trackpad sometimes inadvertently selects all text. Then the next character I type erases everything in the text box, and I am unable to undo to get it back.
2. Sometimes, I need to send the exact same text to multiple persons. I'd prefer to do this with Ctrl+C to copy, change tabs, and then Ctrl+V to paste. But, I cannot, and I have to use the mouse to highlight and middle-click the selection into the next tab or window.
The biggest problem is the first one; however, implementing all of the basic functionality that is reasonably expected of a text editing widget would be immensely helpful.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32.12 x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 14 12:13:25 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | New → Expired |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Expired → New |
thanks for the bug report can you please tell a few steps to reproduce this bug? I can copy, paste and cut with ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+x respectively without any problem.