Can't select description text in software item screen

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

software-center-gtk3 trunk r2217, Ubuntu Ocelot
Software Center version 5.1.14.1, Ubuntu Precise Beta 2

1. Navigate to a software item screen.
2. Try to select text in the description field.

What happens: You can't.
What should happen: You can.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

I have version 5.0.1.4 Ubuntu 11.10 and this bug is still present here.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Updated for Software Center version 5.1.14.1, Ubuntu Precise Beta 2, as the package title and subtitle are selectable in this version. Only the description field remains unselectable.

[Mohamed Alaa (m-alaa8)]

sorry for this, I couldn't understand how to fix this bug, I couldn't understand the whole code.

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

There is a class called TextBlock in softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/description.py which has the code that is used to display the description text.

From what I can tell it uses a Pango layout to draw the text rather than just using a GTK Label. This is where my knowledge runs out I have no idea how one would make a Pango layout text selectable or if its even possible I couldn't find my documentation on how this all works. Anyway hopefully this is help to the next person looking into this issue.

[Raz Ziv (raz-ziv)]

Seems to be fixed.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to comment #6, closing.