[touch] No way to go to beginning of URL in address bar

I’m not seeing the text being dragged to the left when dragging the cursor to the left, however I can confirm that it’s impossible to move the cursor to the beginning of the address bar.

I initially thought it would be some sort of bug in the TextField component, but I’m not able to reproduce with a simple standalone app, so it must be browser-specific. Needs more investigation.

I’ve managed to track down the problem to the x coordinate of the TextField not being an integer. This seems to be a bug in the UITK. I can reliably reproduce the issue with the following standalone example:

import QtQuick 2.4
import Ubuntu.Components 1.3
Item {
  TextField {
    id: textField1
    anchors {
      left: parent.left
      leftMargin: 50
      right: parent.right
      rightMargin: 50
      top: parent.top
      topMargin: 200
    }
    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec a diam lectus. Sed sit amet ipsum mauris. Maecenas congue ligula ac quam viverra nec consectetur ante hendrerit. Donec et mollis dolor."
  }
  TextField {
    anchors {
      left: parent.left
      leftMargin: 50.1
      right: parent.right
      rightMargin: 50
      top: textField1.bottom
      topMargin: 50
    }
    text: textField1.text
  }
}

While the first text field can be scrolled in both directions without problems, the second one cannot be scrolled to the left.

I’m going to work around the problem in webbrowser-app, but this should probably be addressed in the UITK

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20160223-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20160223-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk.

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Remove the 'formFactor' context property, and replace all its uses
    by more meaningful conditions. (LP: #1446904, #1542375)
  * Update translation template.
  * Work around a bug in the UITK that prevents touch scrolling to the
    left of the address bar by ensuring that the x coordinate of the
    text field is an integer. (LP: #1546346)
  * Work around bug #1546677 (UITK), by destroying the bookmark options
    popover instead of hiding it. (LP: #1546627, #1546677)

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:24:49 +0000

Olivier, it's more due to text rendering. The x-coordinates, like any other ones cannot be integer values, but perhaps the renderer expects something like that... we have to check that, and may be that a fix would be an integral value... however I doubt that would be the solution.