** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Andrea Bernabei (faenil)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-ui-toolkit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457468 Title: Text selection is partially broken when textarea is partially out of view Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Description: In some cases, text selection doesn't work properly, in particular it's not possible to drag the selection handles all the way to the bottom (or the top) if the top (or bottom) of the TextArea is outside of the view. This bug is partially overlapping with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-ui- toolkit/+bug/1200371 but they're not the same thing. I have been thinking for a few minutes about what those cases are, and I came up with the following list: - If the TextArea is taller than the view, then one part of it will be out of screen for sure. Let's suppose it's the top side. In that case, the user wouldn't be able, starting the drag from *within* the view, to reach the text which is *outside* of the view. This happens, for instance, in any app which includes a text editor. Once the text fills more than one page, the user won't be able to select text starting from anywhere inside the current view, and ending anything outside of the view. This is probably a very common usecase, together with the second one. - If the TextArea is inside a Flickable and that Flickable is scrolled in a way that partially hides the TextArea. This happens whenever an app has, for instance, a listview which holds many field of some kind of forms the user has to fill in. The user fills the visible fields, then scroll down, thus potentially partially hiding (or partially bringing into the view) on of the fields. - If the TextArea is inside a Flickable, which is inside other Flickables, and they're scrolled in a way that the TextArea is only partilly into the view. This is the generic case (even though probably not the most common one). I'll write my solution proposal in a comment. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1457468/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp