Bug 125163

Summary: Text selection in password dialog (msn) not possible
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Matthew Munro <denormalised>
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.11   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Matthew Munro 2006-04-08 12:52:22 UTC 
Version:           0.11 (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

When I have mis=typed my login password, I would like to be able to use `Shift + Home' to select what I have typed and then overwrite it correctly.  `Shift + an arrow key' is unresponsive too.  And mouse selection is also not possible.  This functionality is available in most password dialogs I am aware of, such as MSN Messenger and Mozilla Firefox.  Thanks for reading.
Comment 1 Matthew Munro 2006-04-08 13:49:53 UTC 
I just unlocked my screen and realised that that password dialog behaves in the same way.  So perhaps I'll take this higher up the tree.  And I've also realised that I can achieve what _I_ want to do using `Ctrl + a'.  But the lack of `Shift +' options still leaves a certain functionality gap, which someone might require later.
Comment 2 Bartosz Fabianowski 2006-04-08 22:01:53 UTC 
Kopete has no control over this behavior - it is enabled by Qt when the echoMode of a QLineEdit is set to QLineEdit::Password. See:

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qlineedit.html#echoMode-prop