205754 - Need preference to disable drag/drop of selected text.

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Robert La Ferla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514

When you are composing/editing a message, you can inadvertently move text with
the mouse unintentionally.  It is most annoying.  Need option to "Disable
drag/drop of text" in Preferences->Composer.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Compose a new message.
2.  Type a few sentences.
3.  Select one of the sentences.
4.  Click and hold mouse button and drag text around.

NOTE:  The problem is that while you are editing you may do this unintentionally...



Actual Results:  
Text is moved.

Expected Results:  
It did what it should BUT there should be an option to disable this
functionality in the Preferences->Composer menu.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

future, helpwanted

Robert La Ferla--you can always do "undo" to get back to previous state when you
accidentally move or drop data in wrong location.

Comment 2

[Robert La Ferla]

I am fully aware of "undo".  That's not my point.  If you look at Microsoft
Office, for example, they have this same drag/drop text feature as an option. 
This is because some people like it and others do not.  I personally do not like
it and it just gets in my way.  Too often, I go to select some text and
accidently move it.  I would like to disable this feature.  However, I can see
why some other people may want to use it so I think it's best left as an option.

Comment 3

[ben]

please add this feature!!  

the current drag/drop settings prevent me from selecting text inside of an
existing selection, which i have a habit of doing frequently!  i personally
prefer that my computer not inhibit my style of text editing...

Comment 4

[Bob Firth]

--> severity: enhancement

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

the option to disable selected D&D would likely have to apply to the entire product (which I can't imagine happening), composer is html editor, so -> General

Andrew? would involve core (editor)?

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

how different is this from bug 152080?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> how different is this from bug 152080?

tempting dupe - it would probably resolve his issue. But I think bug 152080 is more far reaching.  

IMO the bug should not have been confirmed.   no dupes, no cc, no votes.

Comment 8

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.