Text selection handles are too small
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
In a text box (eg. a message in the messaging app), I find it impossible to move the edges of a selection because the handles are too small. When I do manage to grab a handle, I cannot see where I am placing it because the handle's hotspot isn't far enough away from the text so my finger covers the area I need to see. If I move my finger down, so does the selection.
In practice, this means that I can never use the handles, and end up having to delete and retype anything I want to edit. This also applies to just moving the text caret, which is again difficult because I cannot see where I am going.
Sorry I took this long to report this. I had assumed that this bug was obvious enough that a fix would arrive without reporting it. Maybe this is hardware specific? I'm using a bq Aquaris 4.5 on OTA-12.
This may be a regression of bug 1407723, which describes exactly the same problem but is marked Fix Released. Or perhaps the fix there wasn't sufficient for me.
