Re: [Evolution] There is absolutely a bug with the delete key

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On 07 May 2001 16:23:13 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
> > On 07 May 2001 13:25:24 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
> > > It happened to me again.  No, it's NOT my keyboard.  I'm
> > > not sure how to repeat it exactly, but I think it should
> > > be fairly easy to do (especially since it's happened to
> > > me twice in the past day).  I'm using sawfish and gtk+
> > > and bonobo from cvs from this weekend (to fix the focus
> > > bug with address fields), and since then, when I first
> > > launch Evolution the Delete key works to delete e-mail,
> > > but after a while it no longer works.  If I can figure
> > > out the exact steps I'll post a bug report.  So please
> > > Ximian folks, this time don't be so quick to dismiss this
> > > report.
> >
> > Well, try this.  Click on the message body in your main
> > program window.  Now hit DEL.  You'll notice it won't work.
> > If you now click on the message list, DEL will work.
> > It's a program focus thing that I reported last night.
> > Could this be what you've noticed?
> >
> >     Miles
>
> I'm at work right now so I can't try it out until late
> tonight, but I'm almost positive that's not it.  This morning
> I specifically selected an e-mail, hit <DEL>, nothing happens.
> So I click on several more.  Note that ^D worked every time.
>
> I'm suspicious that it's a sawfish problem from this weekend's
> CVS.  I think to reproduce it all you have to do is switch
> to a different desktop and back, but I won't be able to test
> this until at least tonight.
>
> There do appear to be other focus problems between IMAP
> and local mail folders (I think I reported that this 
> weekend but haven't seen any responses yet).  Is this what
> you've seen?  To me it looks like the message highlight
> color is different between the two, but I suppose that could
> be because the focus is different between the two.

No, your experiences are different from mine.  I am using all
pre-compiled stuff from Red-Carpet and my configuration is 
using POP3 servers.  I hope you are able to track your DEL
key issue down.

Good luck!

    Miles