Bug 158773

Summary:	text edit: interprets double click (select word) + mouse down (start drag) as tripple click (select line)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	esigra
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description esigra 2008-03-04 19:11:17 UTC

Version:           3.5.8 (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

A multiline text edit widget interprets a double click followed by a mouse down as triple click. But for a triple click to actually have happended, the mouse button must have been released as well the third time.

This happens when a user double clicks a word and then presses the mouse to start dragging that word to some place. But then the whole line is selected.

Comment 1 Matthew Woehlke 2008-03-04 21:39:28 UTC

...except that it appears to be SOP for the selection to happen on mouse down (e.g. gtk does the same; heck, so does M$).

(Besides this would be a Qt change, not a KDE change.)

Comment 2 Matthew Woehlke 2008-03-04 21:41:50 UTC

For clarity, I should add that things *must* work this way, else you could not select multiple words, multiple lines, etc. (So on second blush, there's one heck of a good reason everyone does it this way.)