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| Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) wrote Problem for text selection with the mouse on compose window | #0 |
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Hello,
New UI of Friends is very fast, but there is a little problem in the compose window.
When I write a message and want to replace, delete or copy part of the text, I am unable to select it with the mouse, left button pressd and moving it to cover all words needed.
If I do that, text is not highlighted but there is a sub-menu which comes and proposes "Select all", "Select word", "Paste", "Undo".
It's fine but not very easy, I prefer - like in any other application - be able to select many words or rows by moving mouse with left button pressed.
Here it is possible to double-click on 1 word and select it, then click anywhere in the window to unselect.
Also, it is possible to do "Ctrl + A" which selects all the text, but then impossible to unselect just by clicking one time in the message window, I have to double click whichs selects the last word of the message, and then again one click to uneselect.
I don't know if this behavior is volunteer but it's not very practical on a desktop PC. I guess there are features for smartphones and tablets UI, where there is no mouse but direct finger selection, and it sounds logical, but please adapt when Friends is used on a computer if possible !