Bug#518813: gucharmap: Focussing the font selection box not possible anymore

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 23 mars 2009 à 23:18 +0100, Christian Ohm a écrit :
> On Monday, 23 March 2009 at 22:32, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > It sounds to me, given how GTK+ works, that this change is intentional. 
> 
> Yes, it might even be a change in GTK and not gucharmap, so that "secondary"
> widgets don't get focused anymore (I don't remember if I updated GTK at the
> same time or not).

No, the change is in gucharmap; that’s not normally how GTK+ works.

> > If you can suggest an improvement on the behavior, feel free to provide
> > ideas, but IMHO it would be a regression to just go back to the 2.22
> > behavior.
> 
> Well, to me the current behaviour is a regression (gucharmap's homepage even
> lists "switch among fonts quickly" as one of its features). The current
> behaviour requires a "aim-click-aim-click" sequence (or
> "click-downarrow-enter", one action less, but easier to get wrong since all
> three are different, and involve both mouse and keyboard). An (optional) font
> list box to the left (or right?) similar to the script/codeblock column might
> be a good solution, if the former widget behaviour cannot be restored or is
> deemed undesirable.

Frankly, if you want to debate that, please do so directly with the
upstream authors. I don’t think we’re going to diverge from upstream for
such a small and unclear issue.

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