Activity title: clear entry

[erikos]

It is hard to set a complete new activity title at the moment, when you tap/click into the entry you have to erase each letter one by one, either using the OSK or the hardware keyboard.

on the table:

• select all text when tap/click

• have an 'x' icon like in other entries

• tap+start typing will erase the existing one

tested in os6

[manuq]

+1 to have an 'x' icon like in other entries.

[garycmartin]

Adding the 'x' makes more sense for search fields, as you frequently have clear the string. Empty is the default case you need to return to after any search, the 'x' also costs us some space in the widget. For Activity Titles, I'd rather 'select all text when first tap/click' so that typing can replace the whole string, with an additional tap/click to remove the selection and place the cursor somewhere for making a smaller edit to the Title.

[manuq]

Replying to garycmartin:

Adding the 'x' makes more sense for search fields, as you frequently have clear the string. Empty is the default case you need to return to after any search, the 'x' also costs us some space in the widget. For Activity Titles, I'd rather 'select all text when first tap/click' so that typing can replace the whole string, with an additional tap/click to remove the selection and place the cursor somewhere for making a smaller edit to the Title.

Yes your points sound good to me.

[humitos]

I've just upload a patch for revision.

The idea is:

• when the entry is tapped/clicked and it's not focused (initial tap/click), we select all the text and focus this entry and we do not propagate that event to other handlers.

• when the entry is tapped/clicked and it IS focused (second/third... tap/click), we just propagate that event to other handlers. This allows the user to select text with the mouse, for example.

[erikos]

Thanks, I like the patch and it does what it claims it does, pushed as 7b8fa5e406d8ff5c66f05f8ab3961317f3744794

[greenfeld]

Whenever the activity title field receives focus via the mouse or touch the entire text in said field is highlighted in 13.1.0 os20/Sugar 0.98.2.

{This caused me to delete an entry's name in the journal once though by accident, and I didn't realize until later I had done that.}

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.98 deleted