[jbosstools-dev] Text fields not editable after opening and closing a dropdown menu

André Dietisheim adietish at redhat.com
Thu Sep 27 06:23:34 EDT 2012


Hi Peter

I'm running FC16 with cinnamon (GTK based). I definitely cant reproduce 
what you show in your screencast. I bet that it's tied to KDE. Is this 
here maybe related?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1513305

Cheers
André

On 09/27/2012 11:48 AM, Peter Palaga wrote:
> Hi André,
>
> Please have a look at the screencast: http://youtu.be/wfBlrF28qp8
>
> Peter
>
> On 2012-09-26 16:34, André Dietisheim wrote:
>> Hi Peter
>>
>> I could actually not reproduce that. Could you please screencast it so
>> that I can double-check I do exactly what you're telling me to do?
>>
>> Cheers
>> André
>>
>> On 09/26/2012 03:44 PM, Peter Palaga wrote:
>>> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>>>
>>> I was not able to find any sign of this bug on bugs.eclipse.com 
>>> although
>>> I am experiencing it since Eclipse 3.7.
>>> Probably, it is Linux or even KDE specific.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know if it is filed somewhere?
>>>
>>> Could please anybody try to reproduce it under Gnome, Mac or Windows?
>>>
>>> Steps to reproduce:
>>>
>>> (1) File > New > Java Project
>>>
>>> (2) Open the dropdown menu of any combo box (there are three of them
>>> there) either by mouse or keyboard. Close the dropdown menu in any way
>>> (focus out, select an item or hit space)
>>>
>>> (3) Focus the Project Name text field and try to type some character.
>>> UNEXPECTED: No char appears in the text field.
>>>
>>> Reproducible also in other dialogs, e.g. SVN Commit, Git Create Tag, 
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Workaround:
>>>
>>> (i) Paste some text into the text field (use either context menu of the
>>> text field or middle-click)
>>>
>>> (ii) Cut some part of the text in the text field away (select by mouse
>>> and context menu > Cut)
>>>
>>> After (ii) the text field accepts keyboard events again.
>>>
>>> Note that (i) is necessary only if there is no text in the text field.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Peter
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>>
>

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