A bug tracker is the right place to have this discussion, and I see you've filed 19508 which was closed WontFix. I appreciate your opinion and dedication to Linux. We have plenty of Linux users who have gotten adjusted to this behavior and prefer it. There is no clear answer, which is why there has been so much discussion. I am not going to try to repeat all of that here. You can also read bug 13561, which was a previous round of something similar.
Basically you have to stop thinking of the Omnibox as an already existing GTK widget, and think of it as a new widget designed specifically for optimizing input of URLs. That means there is no conventions for this new type of widget. GtkEntry / etc were optimized for clicking a text box and editing / inserting text. The Omnibox widget is optimized for clicking and replacing text. We believe this behavior makes sense for how people input URLs. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM, alenpeacock <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 5:40 pm, Dean McNamee <[email protected]> wrote: >> This thread is massive. Having been the one who wrote the majority of >> the Omnibox code on Linux, I can promise you that this debate has >> already happened about 15 times previously. I'm not sure there is any >> more information here, we've already decided how we want things to >> work. > > Doesn't the fact that this debate has happened 15 times already raise > a red flag for everyone? I mean, to me, that smells like - as they say > on the internets - "you're doing it wrong." > > I hate that we're distracting you guys once again on an issue that you > all thought was settled, but I can also guarantee that you'll see it > another 115 times, until it starts to conform with conventions. And > I'd really hate for us boneheaded non-windows users to keep wasting > your attention and deflecting your energy when you could be using it > instead to take care of all those other things that I'm sure are on > your plates. We're on your side, we really are! I don't want to go > back to Firefox. > > Please reconsider. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
