LCA: Bringing X into a two-handed world [LWN.net]

LCA: Bringing X into a two-handed world

Posted Feb 4, 2008 17:02 UTC (Mon) by orospakr (subscriber, #40684)
Parent article: LCA: Bringing X into a two-handed world

I've noticed that GTK won't accept clicks on buttons that aren't 
pre-lighted, which seems related to the issues with two mouse pointers in 
a GTK app.  For instance, whenever I'm using Synaptic, the whole UI is 
disabled as it enumerates the package database.  I tend to put my mouse 
cursor over the Search button early, and when the software re-enables it, 
my clicks do nothing unless I move the cursor off and back onto the 
button again.

I wonder if it's an idiosyncrasy of GTK or X in general...

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LCA: Bringing X into a two-handed world

Posted Feb 4, 2008 17:11 UTC (Mon) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

It's GTK.  Another instance is the firefox file dialog.  If you click create directory, type
in the name, and try to click again to create another subdirectory, it doesn't recognize the
click until you move off the button and back on.  It's aggravating and unnecessary.  Other
file dialogs in other UIs don't have this limitation.

LCA: Bringing X into a two-handed world

Posted Feb 7, 2008 4:33 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396) [Link]

This is probably: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070