Comment 5 for bug 835018

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.