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Bug 66815 - Selection disappears in trees when they do not have focus (KDE)
Summary: Selection disappears in trees when they do not have focus (KDE)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-GTK
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Carolyn MacLeod CLA
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: 64861 68572 78787 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2004-06-12 01:04 EDT by Guillaume Pothier CLA
Modified: 2005-02-17 09:44 EST (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Guillaume Pothier CLA 2004-06-12 01:04:20 EDT 
In M9 and RC1, trees such as the package explorer or the outline view don't show
the selected item(s) when they don't have focus.
This is particularly annoying for the "Link with editor" option, which looses a
big part of its interest if the selected item is not visible.
This problem does not occur on Windows. It does on Mandrake10 and SuSE9.0 with
KDE. It worked properly with M7 on the same config.
Comment 1 Billy Biggs CLA 2004-06-12 09:19:58 EDT 
I believe this is a usability bug in kcontrol/krdb.  It is really annoying for
lots of Gtk+-2.0 apps.  See:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82619

A workaround is to go to:
KDE menu > Settings > Control center > Appearance and Themes > Colors
and uncheck the box "Apply colours to non-KDE applications".
Comment 2 Guillaume Pothier CLA 2004-06-14 08:43:13 EDT 
Billy, your workaround worked, thanks.
It might be necessary to warn users about this issue, and this workaround.
Comment 3 Veronika Irvine CLA 2004-06-16 11:51:30 EDT 
Carolyn,  please add to our FAQ and then close.
Comment 4 David J. Orme CLA 2004-06-29 16:59:40 EDT 
*** Bug 68572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Billy Biggs CLA 2004-09-19 15:40:45 EDT 
FWIW, this bug is fixed in KDE version 3.2.3 and higher.
Comment 6 Billy Biggs CLA 2004-09-20 16:21:54 EDT 
*** Bug 64861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2004-11-19 05:06:35 EST 
*** Bug 78787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Billy Biggs CLA 2005-02-17 09:25:14 EST 
I checked and saw that this is mentioned in the FAQ, so I am closing this bug.
Comment 9 Omry Yadan CLA 2005-02-17 09:37:43 EST 
it will be nice to have a link to the faq entry here, for users who will get to
this bug before finding the faq entry.
Comment 10 Billy Biggs CLA 2005-02-17 09:44:33 EST 
Here's the link, but the text in this bug is actually a little more descriptive :)

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html#gtkselectiongone