auto-highlighting dialogue boxes in X

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: auto-highlighting dialogue boxes in X
Date: 16:08 on 14 Aug 2003
This may just be in GTK or maybe just a particular piece of suckage 
on behalf of Yahoo Messenger for *nix but 
...

  HIGHLIGHTING THE GROUPS BOX AUTOMATICALLY WHEN OPENING A 'NEW USER' 
                      WINDOW IS RETARDED, MMMMKAY


Imagine this scenario - I obtain someone's user id, maybe in an email. 
It matters not. Because I'm in XWindows I highlight it, move to my 
messenger client, click on New User ... and now I have to go deselect 
the 'group' entry field, go back, re-highlight the user id and then go 
back and paste it in.

I mean, what use is highlighting that dialogue? In case I want copy the 
group name back somewhere when I'm done for some reason but am 
pathologically lazy and so can't do it myself?

And whilst I'm ranting about Yahoo Messenger ... people stick 
interesting URLs in their status messages. Can I somehow click on those 
urls or maybe even get to somewhere where I can copy them? No. Because 
that would make too much sense.

-- 
act like nothing's wrong

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