Right now, the read-only field (a) changes appearance when focused, (b)
to white, (c) is debossed, and (d) has a blinking insertion point.
Combined with the fact that its label isn't greyed out, those four clues
strongly indicate that I can type into it. The only thing that prevented
me from thinking that the OSK not appearing here was a bug was the fact
that that I happened to design this screen myself.
That's why I didn't say a read-only text field should always look
focused; that wouldn't solve the problem at all. I said it should look
exactly the same when it isn't focused as when it is.
In most toolkits, read-only text fields (a) aren't even focusable, (b) or if
they are, they don't change color, (c) they have flatter edges than read-write
fields, and (d) they don't have an insertion point (except for accessibility
purposes when you can't select text with a pointing device). You can see how
your browser renders the difference, for example, by copying and pasting the
following line into the address field:
data:text/html,<input><input disabled>
(Unfortunately data: URIs don't work with the Ubuntu Browser; I've just
reported that as bug 1377953.)
** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Read-only text field doesn't look read-only
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