[WebKit-devel] Input fields bug

[Dawit A.]

On Monday 11 January 2010 20:37:58 Andrea Diamantini wrote:
> Hi all,
> testing rekonq from git against the upcoming KDE SC 4.4 I noticed that
>  input fields are overwritten with the clipboard content while focusing on
>  there.
> 
> This bug is caused from the following code from
>  KWebView::mouseReleaseEvent()
> 
> [code]
> const bool isAccepted = event->isAccepted();
> page()->event(event);
> 
> if (!event->isAccepted())
> 	d->handleUrlPasteFromClipboard();
> 
> event->setAccepted(isAccepted);
> [/code]
> 
> I tried to guess the need for such an hack, but I fail miserabily :)
> Can someone pls explain me that? 

The workaround was adapted by me from Arora to address:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211302

However, it was never tested against QtWebKit 4.6...

> Or... could I remove these lines from  trunk and backport changes to
> branches/4.4?

If you could, #ifdef 0 out the code and test whether or not the bug reported 
above does not occur, that code can be removed from 4.4 and 4.5.