Re: SUGGESTION: Re About Dialogs

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:33:32PM +0930 or thereabouts, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Confound!
> 
> Why can't I use X's normal highlight/third button/paste function in the
> about dialogs for almost every Gnome Application? These dialogs often
> contain e-mail addresses and URL's which are absolutely painful to type
> in (eg http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ - try typing that late at
> night after heaps of UML sessions) and disabling this function doesn't
> help matters.

It's a pain, I agree. Good news, though: it's done for GTK+ 2.0:

   Product - Version Component Status   Short Summary
   gtk+ - 1.2.x      general   RESOLVED Can't paste from dialogue boxes.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55650

Telsa