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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 08 May 2001 23:38:09 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
> > On 08 May 2001 14:48:58 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > >   Uhm, what do you mean?  I am pretty sure that there is no difference,
> > > > at GUI/focus level, between the way IMAP folders and local folders are
> > > > handled.
> > >
> > > Just try it out.  I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly
> > > how to reproduce it now, but it just happened to me again 5
> > > minutes ago.  When I clicked on message headers in the message
> > > list window of my IMAP folder, they were highlighted in gray.
> > > Then I think I switched to my local Inbox (where they always have
> > > highlighted in blue, but the <DEL> key selectively stops working),
> > > and switched back, my IMAP message headers started highlighting
> > > in blue.  Both of these problems probably are focus-related,
> > > and were recently introduced.  If I can come up with a way
> > > to reproduce this one faithfully, I'll submit another bug report.
> > > But this absolutely positively does happen.  I'm not sure if
> > > the IMAP highlight color problem introduces anything else.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > P.S.  I'm using the evolution-0-10 branch, and everything else
> > > is most recent from CVS.  And gtkhtml still crashes if I open
> > > the Compose window, type a few characters, then hit <CR>.  This
> > > has been going on for weeks now (see bug 2517), but I'm not getting
> > > anywhere with it.
> >
> > You have upgraded orbit?
>
> Yes, from orbit-stable-0-5.  That's what's so frustrating
> about this--as far as I know I've got all the latest stable
> packages from all the correct branches, and I've verified
> several times to the best of my knowledge that I don't have 
> extraneous files in other paths, etc., but I still seem to
> have a problem that no one else has (or will admit to).  I

You seem to have this whole attitude of 'conspiracy against dan'.
Really, its not the case!

> just don't know what else to try.  I've manually deleted both
> gtkhtml and orbit libraries from the path where it is installed
> (/usr/local), rebuilt, and reinstalled as well.  But NOTHING
> is fixing the Compose window crash that I've been experiencing
> for over 2 weeks now.

Well, we all got pretty caught by the hit-return-it-crashes thing, but
ORBit patched, did fix it for me.

You've tried like make clean and whatnot?  Out of date idl compilation ?
I dont know, i'm grasping at straws here.

> But that's different from the IMAP focus issue above.  That
> one's pretty minor in my book since it doesn't seem to have
> any adverse effect.

The focus issues seem very sawfishy (or something), I dont use sawfish
and dont really have these sorts of problems.

 Z