Comment #126 on issue 26140 by [email protected]: Chrome Linux single  
click does not select all
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26140

"Isn't this bug the discussion of the results of the experiment?"

No, discussion like this on bugs is noise.  I'm referring to actual  
physical f2f
discussion amongst the developers.

"I don't think this is enough for people who want the select all behavior  
(e.g., it
still makes copying the URL hard)"

It's not that hard to drag-select the URL if you really, really want to  
copy it out.
Or triple-click.

"are you suggesting adding new UI to the omnibox to facilitate  
replacing/copying the
URL or overloading some existing part of the UI?"

New UI.  But personally I don't think this is the best route.

"I think we should provide a workflow that works with either user type  
since this is
about user interaction with apps other than just Chrome."

It depends on how you define "works".

I'm going to draw a line in the sand here and say that I think single-click  
select-
all w/o replacing PRIMARY is the overall best behavior.  This is based on  
my own
opinion, how other browsers on Linux behave, how Chrome behaves on other  
OSes, and
observations of developer and user reaction to the three different  
behaviors we have
tried.  I believe we should return to this behavior and close this bug.

There is yet another tweak that no one has mentioned, which is that we  
could make the
single-click "select all" draw a different-styled "selection" (e.g. faded  
halfway
between the background and the selection background) to try and make clear  
that
PRIMARY wouldn't be replaced.  This runs the risk of confusing users in  
multiple
different ways.

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