SUMMARY ...as if the text was editable. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Try to open multiple files at once (tested with 10) OBSERVED RESULT A warning shows up. If you click into the text, | appears as if the text was editable. EXPECTED RESULT This should not happen. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.66 Qt Version: 5.14
Might be intentional to be able to mark text for copying (Shift+Cursor).
But for that you need to click there anyway, and if you have to click you can just highlight the text with mouse like anywhere else without a need for the thing |.
I didn't check, but it might be possible to Tab into that text widget.
The I-beam makes the text keyboard-selectable as well. But I agree, that might be overkill. It's possible to make it only mouse-selectable, which we did for the labels in the Information panel because of this very complaint.
Actually it is in Dolphin after all.
Hah, it's actually in all the message boxes, which live in kwidgetaddons. Patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26649
Git commit 945f1849cc246107d20d92768b67a2010f2fae39 by Nate Graham. Committed on 14/01/2020 at 18:40. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [KMessageBox] Only allow selecting text in the dialog box using the mouse Summary: Right now, when you select text in the dialog box, an insertion point appears. It never disappears. This looks odd: {F7882083} The insertion point allows you to navigate the text using the keyboard. But this is kind of pointless since you have to use the mouse to make the insertion point appear in the text in the first place, so you might as well just use the mouse to make the selection. This patch makes the text only mouse-selectable. Dolphin recently did the same thing for its Information Panel labels in D25241 for the same reason. FIXED-IN: 5.67 Test Plan: Try to open 6 items at once in Dolphin and click-and-drag in the message box text. Test is still selectable, but an insertion point is no longer created that cannot be removed. Reviewers: dfaure, #frameworks, #vdg, ndavis Reviewed By: #vdg, ndavis Subscribers: broulik, kde-frameworks-devel Tags: #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26649 M +2 -2 src/kmessagebox.cpp https://commits.kde.org/kwidgetsaddons/945f1849cc246107d20d92768b67a2010f2fae39