Read-only text field doesn't look read-only

So read only text fields should always look as if they have focus?

That seems very confusing to me.

Right now, the read-only field (a) changes appearance when focused, (b) to white, (c) is debossed, and (d) has a blinking insertion point. Combined with the fact that its label isn't greyed out, those four clues strongly indicate that I can type into it. The only thing that prevented me from thinking that the OSK not appearing here was a bug was the fact that that I happened to design this screen myself.

That's why I didn't say a read-only text field should always look focused; that wouldn't solve the problem at all. I said it should look exactly the same when it isn't focused as when it is.

In most toolkits, read-only text fields (a) aren't even focusable, (b) or if they are, they don't change color, (c) they have flatter edges than read-write fields, and (d) they don't have an insertion point (except for accessibility purposes when you can't select text with a pointing device). You can see how your browser renders the difference, for example, by copying and pasting the following line into the address field:
data:text/html,<input><input disabled>

(Unfortunately data: URIs don't work with the Ubuntu Browser; I've just reported that as bug 1377953.)

The attached branch does two things:

- The cursor won't blink in read-only text fields.
- The color doesn't change to white on focus.

After some discussion it seems we want read-only text fields to actually look like labels (that can be selected).

That would work in most cases. But what about the case where the text scrolls, such as a license agreement or ToS? If a line or paragraph happens to end just above the bottom of the field, there would be no hint that the text can be scrolled. Perhaps the read-only rendering should include a frame if, and only if, the text is longer than the field.

The only hint you have in all cases is text being cut off at half the height of a line. To me the border doesn't make any difference.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.1.1311+15.04.20141102-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.1.1311+15.04.20141102-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

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  [ Christian Dywan <email address hidden>
  * Explicitly use Orange in Slider and ProgressBar.
    Fixes: LP: #1372585.
  * Copy components correctly in push_to_phone.sh and make copy.sh
    more robust.
  * Make push_to_phone.sh use a temporary folder and sudo.

  [ Zsombor Egri <email address hidden>
  * ThinDivider margins rolled back to edge-to-edge. Divider colors
    adjusted with design. Fixes: LP: #1380766.

  [ Tim Peeters <email address hidden>
  * Add updated header divider to use rectangles instead of images,
    and to auto-detect its color. Fixes: LP: #1372590.
  * Add internal property to hide the header separator.
    Needed in Unity8.

  [ Leonardo Arias Fonseca <email address hidden>
  * Fixed the infinite loop when running flickable tests.
    Fixes: LP: #1384703.
  * Added an autopilot helper for expandable list items.
    Fixes: LP: #1340227.
  * The autopilot helpers to swipe to show more now get the flickable
    containers by default. Fixes: LP: #1365674.
  * Replaced the tabs for spaces in UbuntuTestCase.
   Fixes: LP: #1324469.

ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.1.1298+14.10.20141030~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=low

  [ CI bot ]
  * Resync trunk

  [ Timo Jyrinki ]
  * Modify test .desktop file (LP: #1382414) (LP: #1382414)

ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.1.1298+14.10.20141016.1-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=medium

  [ Jussi Pakkanen]
  * Remove the thumbnailer image provider here, because thumbnailer
    provides it by itself Fixes LP: #1368492

  [ Lars Uebernickel ]
  * Icon: size correctly even if no or only one dimension is given

  [ Michael Sheldon]
  * Check that orientation changes are acceptable before applying new
    orientation based on active window change. Fixes LP: #1375306

  [ Zoltán Balogh ]
  * Updated test plan executer

  [ Zeller Benjamin ]
  * RenderTimer includes EGL platform files in the rendertime header,
    which can cause problems when included after QDataStream. The
    EGL headers pull the XLib files which define the Symbol Status.
  * Preparing qmlapicheck to support out of source builds for the
    cmake migration

  [ Renato Filho ]
  * Save alarms in invalid time zone. Use invalid time zone to
    floating time alarms.

  [ Tim Peeters ]
  * Make icons from theme in showcase gallery scrollable.
    Fixes: LP: #1336279.
  * Fix width of header contents. Fixes LP: #1378261.

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Don't use simple quotes around translatable strings, xgetting
    ignore those. Fixes LP: #1378774.

  [ Zsombor Egri ]
  * Alarm update regression caused by EDS changes. Also fixes Tags
    update. Requires qtorganizer5-eds updates as well!.
    Fixes LP: #1364949.
  * Forgotten Interface declaration in objects. Fixes LP: #1378298

  [ Christian Dywan ]
  * Make dialog contents scrollable. Fixes LP: #1376763
  * Make mouseMoveSlowly work with a negative distance.
    Fixes LP: #1343334
  * Read-only text entries don't blink or visibly take focus
    Fixes LP: #1370571
  * Anchor overflow but...