Gwibber

Update status: Can't go to another window to paste text, looses input

Bug #910257 reported by Martin Albisetti
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Gwibber
Confirmed
Undecided
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gwibber (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Ken VanDine
Nominated for Precise by Martin Albisetti

Bug Description

This has enraged me enough times to file it.
A common scenario for me is to want to tweet something and paste a URL. I don't always have the URL pre-copied when I start writing, so I tend to alt+tab to the browser to get it. When I do this, I loose the update status window (can't alt+tab back) and all my input has been lost.

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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

This sounds like an annoying bug ... Ken, can you take a look and see if there is some way to address it, if you haven't already?

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
Changed in gwibber:
status: New → Confirmed
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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

Currently this behaves as designed, the update status dialog isn't decorated and is hidden from the launcher. It is designed to get destroyed if it loses focus. The concept was it was a quick way to provide input to post, behaving similarly to the way the entry behaved in the MeMenu.

If we want to change that, it will need to be treated like a real window so it can be found with alt-tab, launcher, etc. Lets get a poll from folks on this bug to see what people want the behavior to be.

Thoughts?

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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

I think either a window is the right thing to do. Or have it in always-on-top mode, so I can copy and paste from the window in the background.

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