Bug 257364

Summary: Selecting text with shift + arrow has a confusing display result in Composer
Product: [Applications] KMail Mobile Reporter: Sabine Faure <sabine>
Component: generalAssignee: Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) <asouza>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: tokoe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sabine Faure 2010-11-19 22:59:22 UTC 
Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

It is not easy for the user to realize that selecting text in the Composer text editor using shift + arrow works because she expects the selected letters to be highlighted. Atm it does not work that way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- Launch Kmail-mobile
- Click on 'Write new Email'
- Enter a sentence in the Composer text editor (ex: Testing selecting text)
- Position the cursor at the beginning of the sentence
- Hold shift and press the right arrow key once
- Only the first letter of the sentence is displayed (ex:'T') which is confusing because the user does not know what it means
- Hold shift and press the right arrow key several times until an entire word reappears (ex: Testing)
- Hold Ctrl and press C to copy the selected word
- Tap once in the Composer text editor to make the text reappear and remove the selection
- Hold Ctrl and press V to paste the previously selected word

Actual Results:  
It works the choosen word is pasted correctly.

However, it is confusing for the user that a selection is displayed in such an unusual way.

Expected Results:  
It would be a lot more user friendly to just highlight the letters or words that the user selects instead.

N900, 4:4.6~20101119.1198723-1maemo1.1198084
Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2010-12-02 12:38:32 UTC 
Hej,

Looks like a painting bug in Qt Maemon, because it's painted correctly on desktop.
This might be related to bug 257290 and 257293. Both involve selected text and display issues.

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 2 Volker Krause 2010-12-10 12:13:24 UTC 
Same underlying Qt on Maemo bug as in bug 257290, this also works fine on WinCE.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 257290 ***