Copy hides highlighting.

[dotancohen]

On Kubuntu 8.04 when a user selects text with the mouse, then right clicks the text to Copy, the highlight disappears. This makes the user think that he is not in fact copying the text. However, the copy operation works (the user can then paste the text into another application) and the highlight is restored once the context menu is closed.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

If I understand correctly the selection highlighting disappears when you open the context menu. Is that correct ? I can not reproduce this on my system. Bug specific to a certain Gtk version ?

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

> If I understand correctly the selection highlighting disappears when
> you open the context menu. Is that correct ?

Yes, this is correct. However, selecting Copy works as expected, and when the context menu closes the highlighting reappears in the correct place.

> Bug specific to a certain
> Gtk version ?

How do I tell what GTK version I am using? I tried googling but all I could find was how to tell on RPM-based systems. I am using Ubuntu, which is Debian based and uses the apt package manager.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

dotancohen wrote:
> How do I tell what GTK version I am using? I tried googling but all I
> could find was how to tell on RPM-based systems. I am using Ubuntu,
> which is Debian based and uses the apt package manager.
>

Zim -V will tell you. Maybe also try if this can be related to LTR or
RTL differences.

Regards,

Jaap

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

The issue affects LTR text as well. Here is the version info:

# Gtk2 version is 1.161
# compiled against gtk+ 2.12.0
# linked against gtk+ 2.12.9

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Running Intrepid I have these versions and I do not see this issue:

# This is zim 0.27
# Gtk2 version is 1.183
# compiled against gtk+ 2.13.3
# linked against gtk+ 2.14.4

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

Although I am passing on Intrepid, I will try to test on a Kubuntu Intrepid system and confirm / deny the issue when I get a chance. I will update when that day comes. Thanks.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

I can confirm this issue on a separate computer running Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2. Here is the output when running Zim:

ety@intrepid-desktop:~$ zim -V
# No daemon listening .. let's start one
# locale: en_US.UTF-8
# This is zim 0.28
WARNING: You don't seem to have any mimeinfo.cache files.
Try running the update-desktop-database command. If you
don't have this command you should install the
desktop-file-utils package. This package is available from
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdesktop_2dfile_2dutils
# Gtk2 version is 1.183
# compiled against gtk+ 2.13.3
# linked against gtk+ 2.14.4
# Notebook path = _new_
# page =
ety@intrepid-desktop:~$

I am ignoring the mimeinfo.cache files issue as the Zim install on this machine was just to check two bugs, it is not a permanent installation.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

This issue seems to have been a Qt issue that was fixed. I cannot reproduce on the latest Kubuntu 9.04 alpha builds. Closing. Thanks!