Re: [Evolution] Help, evo 1.2 -> 1.4 What happened with keys?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

what's unix?

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:38, Roland Orre wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2003, guenther wrote:
> > > I just upgraded from evolution 1.2 to evolution 1.4 (the only one
> > > available in the Debian unstable distribution)
> >
> > I always believed folks using Debian unstable are knowing better to take
> > over a thread and reply... ;-)
>
> For all years I stuck to the principle that the systems I'm
> running should be available on CD, but over time I found that I
> want the "bleeding edge" anyway, so running Debian unstable is
> the most comfortable way of doing this (if you have a good
> connection that is :) (our company has 100 Mb/s))
>
> There are also other advantages going to the mailing list, because
> it's probably read by the developers as well. I found by some search
> that this should be handled centrally now (gnome-keybinding-properties
> since gtk2) but that didn't work.
>
> So, then I just can't understand how they (they evolution developers)
> can remove that setting before they have verified that it works.
>
> For me it means I won't use evolution 1.4 (there's also another issue
> with mail editing making in unusuable)
> I'll continue using 1.2 until evolution starts working again.
>
> It's possible that the evolution developers are not *nix people
> or it's possible that they are not using evolution (at least not
> 1.4) themselves.  *nix people don't accept the crappy editing
> style contaminated from the Windoze environment (at least when
> having a choice).
>
> > > Now I can't choose what editing keys to use in composer.
> > > Earlier I could choose "Emacs or Xemacs" in "Composer prefereneces".
> > >
> > > Now I get this stupid microsoft way of key definitions, which makes
> > > it very hard to write and edit a simple mail in the composer.
> > >
> > > I can't see any settings for this, how do I do?
> >
> > This is a known issue and currently broken.
> >  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41187
>
> I have got some hints, but that's all, that I should be
> able to specify some keybindings in xml to fix the editor
> keys, but I have not found any docs on this.
>
> Anyone?
>
>       Roland
>
>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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