[webkit-dev] Are Qt and GTK+ intentionally returning false in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused?

Carlos Garcia Campos carlosgc at webkit.org
Tue Aug 20 23:48:16 PDT 2013


El mar, 20-08-2013 a las 23:41 -0700, Ryosuke Niwa escribió:
> Does that mean we want the new Mac behavior
> (i.e. shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused returning true) everywhere?

I think so unless any GTK+ port maintainer disagree, but consistency
with the platform is important too, so I'll first check with GNOME
designers if they are ok with changing that in GTK+.

> Ryosuke Niwa
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Kangil Han <kangil.han at samsung.com>
> wrote:
>         +1
>         
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org
>         [mailto:webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of
>         Carlos Garcia Campos
>         Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:08 PM
>         To: Martin Robinson
>         Cc: WebKit Development
>         Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Are Qt and GTK+ intentionally
>         returning false in shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused?
>         
>         El mar, 20-08-2013 a las 10:41 -0700, Martin Robinson
>         escribió:
>         > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Ryosuke Niwa
>         <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>         > > Are Qt and GTK+ (and other) ports intentionally returning
>         false in
>         > > shouldShowPlaceholderWhenFocused?  Or is this just an
>         oversight due
>         > > to the fact the default implementation returned false?
>         >
>         > I just confirmed that the native GTK+ behavior is for
>         placeholder text
>         > to disappear when a text entry is focused. I believe for GTK
>         + this
>         > method should return false.
>         
>         I think that removing the placeholder text when starting
>         typing instead of when the entry is focused is indeed a good
>         idea. I implemented the placeholder text in GTK+ following the
>         WebKit approach, so maybe we can change it in both places.
>         
>         > --Martin
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