Being able to select text and being able to edit text are two separate
capabilities, but ClutterText only allows the former with the latter.
The ClutterText:selectable property is set to TRUE by default, given
that it depends on the :editable property; this implies that all
ClutterText instances now are going to show a cursor as soon as they get
key focused. Obviously, this would make labels look a bit off — but if
you have a label then you would not give it key focus, either by
explicitly calling clutter_actor_grab_focus(), or by setting it as
reactive and allowing it to be clicked.
If this turns out to be a problem, we have various ways to avoid showing
a cursor — for instance, we could change the default value of the
selectable property, and ensure that setting the :editable property to
TRUE would also set the :selectable property as a side effect. Or we
could hide the cursor until the first button/touch press event. Finally,
we could always back this commit out if it proves to be too much of a
breakage for existing code bases.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757470
