Hi Pat, Thanks for such a fast reply. I don't want to sound negative because I'm thrilled Canonical and BQ are pushing into tablet / touch and convergence territory!
This issue as I perceive it is that selecting text through portions of a mess like: 5G2sX.m0&j^g5D3(,M~dGt&^8hbv can seem impossible. My first experience of it was in trying to select a password out of a text passage in an email I had open in the GMail app. I was unable to select and copy that chunk of text out of the body of an email the other day. To verify the issue and clarify my perceptions I replicated the test today in the GMail app. Several issues seem to be at play: 1. The ability to select portions of a long complex string like the one above is very limited. The selected highlight jumps about - selecting too little then too much. 2. The "handles" with which to select are too small, making the use of them difficult. 3. Once I have a passage selected, and the passage may need to be more than I want because selection is imprecise, the "copy" function is grayed out - so I cannot use the selection. Using one of the "Notes" apps, selection is very fiddly and jumpy as above, but it does work, and the copy functionality is available. I am still concerned about the size of the handles and the lack of smooth responsiveness, but I am able to get it to work, but the experience is less than pleasant. So, I guess my most serious issues are in using the GMail app. A grayed out option is no option at all. And moody selection becomes a real user frustration. I apologize that I have no idea how to create a movie of the issues. I really want to see Ubuntu Touch and Linux in general gain ground and so am happy to answer any questions I have not communicated well on. I suspect much of what I speak of lies somewhere in a muddy area between bug fixes and design, especially the size of the selection handles. Size of controls is a UI problem. Does Canonical have a place to send UI thoughts about Ubuntu Touch? I suspect design issues are something of a distraction for you in working through real bugs. And yet I would like to be able to send any relevant thoughts where they could be helpful. Thanks again, Charlie Goodwin On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Pat McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this in specific apps or in all cases? > it may be helpful to provide a video. > > ** Also affects: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided > Status: New > > ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image > Status: New => Incomplete > > ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image > Assignee: (unassigned) => Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan) > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584356 > > Title: > Difficulty with text selection in BQ M10 Tablet > > Status in Canonical System Image: > Incomplete > Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > First bug report on M10 so forgive if I am doing anything wrong. I am > just having no luck on getting complex text selected - stuff like > mathematical expressions or passwords where there is a mix of > alphabetical symbols, numerals, and punctuation in plain text with no > spaces. Among other reasons this is important to me is that I use > massive long passwords and sometimes have to copy them from one place > to another, and math/sql/similar expressions are a mess to handle too. > What selects is portions of the text, but the selection will not > expand to the whole thing. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1584356/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584356 Title: Difficulty with text selection in BQ M10 Tablet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1584356/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
