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[Robie Basak <1613248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

In a text box (eg. a message in the messaging app), I find it impossible
to move the edges of a selection because the handles are too small. When
I do manage to grab a handle, I cannot see where I am placing it because
the handle's hotspot isn't far enough away from the text so my finger
covers the area I need to see. If I move my finger down, so does the
selection.

In practice, this means that I can never use the handles, and end up
having to delete and retype anything I want to edit. This also applies
to just moving the text caret, which is again difficult because I cannot
see where I am going.

Sorry I took this long to report this. I had assumed that this bug was
obvious enough that a fix would arrive without reporting it. Maybe this
is hardware specific? I'm using a bq Aquaris 4.5 on OTA-12.

This may be a regression of bug 1407723, which describes exactly the
same problem but is marked Fix Released. Or perhaps the fix there wasn't
sufficient for me.

** Affects: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Text selection handles are too small

Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In a text box (eg. a message in the messaging app), I find it
  impossible to move the edges of a selection because the handles are
  too small. When I do manage to grab a handle, I cannot see where I am
  placing it because the handle's hotspot isn't far enough away from the
  text so my finger covers the area I need to see. If I move my finger
  down, so does the selection.

  In practice, this means that I can never use the handles, and end up
  having to delete and retype anything I want to edit. This also applies
  to just moving the text caret, which is again difficult because I
  cannot see where I am going.

  Sorry I took this long to report this. I had assumed that this bug was
  obvious enough that a fix would arrive without reporting it. Maybe
  this is hardware specific? I'm using a bq Aquaris 4.5 on OTA-12.

  This may be a regression of bug 1407723, which describes exactly the
  same problem but is marked Fix Released. Or perhaps the fix there
  wasn't sufficient for me.

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