Re: Copying unselectable text

[Guillaume Chazarain <gfc altern org>]

Sven Neumann wrote:

> Well, it doesn't make sense everywhere and it has drawbacks also. You
> don't get this feature for free. A selectable label as well as a
> widget that offers a popup menu needs to be able to receive mouse
> events. Thus it needs an event window. I don't think that the
> availability to copy any text from screen outweights the overhead such
> a change would imply.
>
>  
Thanks for the insight, I don't mind if the menu is not accessible 
everywhere. I may give it a try
when I have some time to see where it works and where it does not 
without giving mouse events
to every widget.

> If there are any labels in GIMP that you think should be selectable
> and aren't yet, please let the GIMP developers know about it. Feel
> free to file a bug-report against gimp or bring it up on
> gimp-developer.
>  
I don't have any problem with gimp, I used this example just because I 
was talking to you ;)

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Guillaume