[maemo-developers] Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:47 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:11 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> > In principle that feature is not officially supported in Fremantle,
> > and adding support in HildonTextView might create inconsistencies
> > between similar-looking apps/dialogs that could be quite confusing.
> > 
> > But of course we can reconsider it (I don't have the last word,
> > though). I'll see what we can do.
> 
> Well, if there is any chance to reconsider, that would be great. I
> myself would be very happy and I think a bunch of other developers too.
> I mean a big scrollable/panable text view is quite common for a lot of
> applications. Mail clients, ebook readers, word processors, chat
> programs, etc. all profit from copy&past for which we need a way of
> selecting text.
[snip]

It would be interesting to know what UI Modest has for this in Fremantle
when editing large emails. Personally I can't get that far in my own
eccentric scratchbox target.

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