wow, there were so many times when i was annoyed with this. this proposal is great, but i’d go even further, and extend that vertical area for line inputs *all the way* to the top and the bottom of the screen.
when i want to select everything up to the end of the line, i flick my mouse pointer beyond the end of the line input, not above or below it. 2014-12-08 6:15 GMT+01:00 Robin Dinse <[email protected]>: > > Hello XDG maintainers and list. > > > I have a proposal for improving the text field UI element. I hope this > list is the right place to bring it up. First of all, I don’t know whether > this behavior is already implemented somewhere or whether it is even > patented. I couldn’t find anything about it in a quick search. Anyway, > here is what I mean: > > https://i.imgur.com/WHa4HeL.png > > The problem is that one can select the individual letters of the text > field only within the narrow region highlighted in the upper picture. > Beyond this region the selection gets extended either all the way to the > left or to the right. Staying within this region requires precise > movements both vertically and horizontally which seems to be sub-optimal > from a usability point of view. > > My proposal is simply to extend this region vertically so that the > intended selection can be achieved with less effort and/or faster. I’m not > sure yet which height would work the best, but I could imagine 3-4 times > the commonly used height would work well. Here is a halfway functional > prototype with a three times larger region (best viewed in Firefox): > > http://jsfiddle.net/rynfk6zc/40/embedded/result/ > > What do you think? > > > Best Regards. > Robin > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >
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