Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145495
RFE: Make text in error dialogs selectable
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:58 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: I'm experiencing various errors and problem with Eclipse in rawhide, and it would be nice to be able to copy&paste text from the error dialogs into IRC and into Bugzilla. Unfortunately, the text in the error dialogs I've seen so far isn't selectable which makes reporting this data a major pain. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): eclipse-gtk2-3.1-0.M4.19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get eclipse to malfunction 2. see error dialog containing text which might be informative in a bug report 3. try to highlight the text Actual Results: Text should be selectable, so I can paste it into bugzilla Expected Results: Text is not selectable Additional info: Marking as High severity since it makes it much more difficult to report all the other bugs that I'm seeing (alas). Hopefully just a case of calling gtk_label_set_selectable (or the equivalent) in the appropriate place.
This would requite modification of the JFACE/SWT text and possibly dialog functions, so it would require a change from the upstream source. It's unlikely this will happen soon, due to the time required in fixing native bugs that arise out of native compilation. FWIW all errors and stack traces should also go to {yourworkspace}/.metadata/.log
Perhaps a bug about this should be file upstream.
Agreed.
Bug filed upstream, closing.