[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Must say that like many others I had the habit of double clicking a URL in order to copy it - a task which I repeatedly do in my work as to paste the URL in a text editor in order to track report URLs which I'm spawning via the terminal. It seems to me that the fact that many users relied on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Thanks, filed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786935 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #786935 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786935 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Ctrl+click opens the URL in your preferred browser. Do you often need to copy the URL into your clipboard instead? I guess Ctrl+Shift+click could be made to do that, sounds reasonable to me (although will be a hard to discover feature). Could you please file a feature request at

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

For me selecting a link using double click is faster than using the right-click context menu (overall don't like menus as I can't use them quickly). To me that's a regression (I can't select URLs as fast as I used to), but that doesn't mean that bringing back the old double-click behavior is the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

If you want an apple, as for an apple. If you want a pear, ask for a pear. What you do is you want a pear, yet you ask for an apple and expect to receive the kind of apple that tastes as close to pear as possible. And even though you can configure the kind of the apple you'll receive, it's still

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Egmont Koblinger writes: > Double clicking, by design, is _not_ meant to select URLs. Really? Which design is that? And regardless of whether or not double click is meant to select URLs, it's a literal fact that it did in fact (largely) select URLs for many years. > So,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

I "love" how much people still complain and fail to understand the previous comments... So let me try it once again... Double clicking, by design, is _not_ meant to select URLs. Double clicking selects a continuous sequence of certain (configurable) characters, and it has do be able to do this

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

FYI, this is still an issue on 16.04. The technique in comment #4 continues to work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1501250 Title: double clicking on a URL

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Dupe of bug 1463072. ** Tags added: regression-release -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1501250 Title: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Not sure whether this is a bug, but I liked the previous behavior. Though I didn't know that there was a "Copy Link Address" feature in the right-click menu, will just get used to that, thanks Egmont. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

This bug is annoying since it make the whole process of copy/paste an url to a specific browser heavier. Futhermore, by default URL without specified scheme will be opened as file:/// on most browser. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

** Changed in: vte Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: vte Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1501250 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Quite ugly "bug" :( I had the habit "since ages" (ehhh) to work in terminal windows, and copy URLs etc. It worked nicely with a quick double click on the URL which does not work anymore after upgrade to Wily :( I understand that it was not meant to select URLs anyway (and not a perfect solution

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Double click is not meant to select a URL (there's an option in the right click menu for that), and adding colon to the list of word-chars won't fix it either. E.g. if you have a URL with a trailing dot (which strictly speaking could be a part of the URL, but usually denotes the end of a sentence)

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

FYI, here is the workaround that I am using: $ dconf list /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ list :b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/ :23d982d2-b22d-4b6d-8e60-ccebbc4e9afe/ :43f0a757-4fdc-4ea4-b5e4-28fa01733089/ I happen to know by looking at dconf-editor that

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

This is a quite annoying bug for gnome-terminal users. I strongly suggest Ubuntu distro patches so that highlighting URLs works again. If this can't be done in time, we should have a release note with instructions on how users can fix it themselves. ** Also affects: vte via

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1501250] Re: double clicking on a URL drops the protocol from the URL

The double click behavior doesn't care about URLs at all. It considers certain characters as part of a word, certain others are not. There were many debates specifically around whether ':' should be a word character or not by default. Unfortunately the setting is not available on the UI; see