Description of problem: As discussed in bug 1069269, in the described scenario, a selection of list-box item by the user should be preserved (i.e. shouldn't be overridden by a programmatic selection). For that, a means for identifying whether the selection has been originated from the user is needed (in order to treat it respectively). Once introducing such mechanism, it should probably be generalized to support any type of widget. Additional info: Further details regarding the issue in bug 1069269.
Closing old bugs. If this issue is still relevant/important in current version, please re-open the bug.
This RFE is required to (properly) solve bug 1069269. I'm reopening it for reconsideration, since afaik the closure on comment 1 was an automatic script, not a thought process that specifically decided this RFE can't/shouldn't be fixed.
We are attempting to move away from GWT in webadmin and switching to micro-frontend architecture with react plugins implementing pieces of the UI. Therefore, we'll avoid writing GWT code as much as possible, and certainly can't prioritize any GWT infrastructure.