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Linux only. Open a text editor. Select a word (say, "Foo"). Press Ctrl-F for Find. The find dialog opens up and Foo is in the "Find" field, but it is not selected. This is a problem because when you begin typing (e.g. if you want to find something other than Foo) you have to first select and delete Foo, whereas on Windows if you just begin typing Foo is removed because it was selected to begin with.
Moving to SWT for initial investigation. Comments above appear to indicate differences in SWT behavior.
Note some differences in behavior are *expected* between platforms. GG should check if this is one of these, or is actually a bug. James: Is this motif or gtk?
Motif.
*** Bug 14986 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The FindReplaceDialog does not do anything to explicitly select the Find combo's contents; this just happens on win32 as a side-effect of giving it focus (same goes for gtk, though even this is apparently configurable). So the observed differences are a result of different platform behaviours, which we aren't going to mess with. Passing to UI. If selection of this Combo's contents is desired on all platforms then fFindField.setSelection(...) needs to be invoked.
Fixed in builds > 20030923.
