Re: GtkEntry behaviour on focus-in

[Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-hackers yakk net au>]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:21:31PM +0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > >  - Does this happen when the user clicks to focus an entry or 
> > >    only when you tab in? 
> > 
> > It happens in both cases.
> 
> Traditionally, in Mac OS, it only selected the text if you tabbed in. If
> you click, you get an insertion point where you clicked. I like that way
> a lot better.
> 
> /me attempts to invoke "everyone knows that Apple does more UI research
> than Microsoft so let's do it their way" FUD.

The Windows behaviour pisses me off a lot. I'm used (from every UI other
than Windows) to being able to click at the end of a text box to append to
it. When I click there and start typing and it replaces what I had in there
it makes me sad...

Ian