Issue 746793  has been merged into this issue.

Does this only happen when multi-clicking?
Does it not happen if the checkbox is clicked?
Even without the text selection, the checkbox is toggling with every click (i.e. regardless of text selection the user would be toggling the same checkbox back and forth rapidly), is that right?
In the end, the check-box state is unaffected by whether text is selected (i.e. the side effect is harmless)?

In inclined to say this works as expected/intended. Is there something more wrong with it that I may be missing?

> Does this only happen when multi-clicking?
1st click -> toggles checkbox,
2nd click -> toggles checkbox again + selects the text.

If the 2nd click happens after a certain timeout text selection does not happen. So in a way this is "multi-clicking" only.

> Does it not happen if the checkbox is clicked?
It does not happen.

>Even without the text selection, the checkbox is toggling with every click
Yes, the checkbox state is working as expected.

>the side effect is harmless
"harmless" as in it does not prevent the user from getting things done. Not "harmless" from a UX perspective, since it looks odd.

> Is there something more wrong with it that I may be missing
Yes. As a user, I am not expecting Text to be selectable when clicking on a "hand" pointer target. It should only be selectable when the cursor is showing the "|" symbol.

Okay, that's rather conflicts with the decision in  Issue 691783 .
Let's find out which Alan prefers (i.e. where should the trade-off be made).

Alan, would you prefer that:
- text is selectable even with a hand-pointer (if so this but is WontFix)
- or text is not selectable with a hand-pointer (if so, please make me Owner again)
- or that use a different pointer* (if so, let us know what specifically)

Alan, I'm cool with talking about this with all of us on Monday, if ya like. 

*(some programs use combo-pointers, but I'm not saying that's a good idea, just trying to list all the options I've thought of)

Proposal (discussed with @dschuyler on chat): An actionable thing should not have its text selected when the action is taking place.

In other words, the text should still be selectable, but it should not get selected "accidentally" while the action is taking place.

See trivial example at https://jsfiddle.net/bkzj4qez/. Clicking/multi-clicking the button does not select its text. Click and hold outside the button, then drag over the button selects the text.

Is there a way to prevent clicking from triggering selection, but still allow selection via drag?

 Issue 748918  is blocked by this bug mostly for the Alan's decision on selections vs something else. So they're not a dupe, but they are related.

Discussed this over the UX meeting, and regarded it as a non-issue given this is a non-detrimental consequence of having the whole row item clickable – which was considered better for usability than restricting the click to the component itself.

If there's strong feelings or thoughts on how to improve this, feel free to take ownership.

 Issue 826241  has been merged into this issue.

 Issue 773195  has been merged into this issue.