Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.4.6 under Mandrake 10.0

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I'm using Evo 1.4.6, which came with Mandrake 10.0 (still in beta
> stages) and I noticed that hitting 'tab' to move from the 'To:' field to
> the 'CC:' and 'Subject' fields takes some time.

Depends on your definition of "some time"...

I can verify switching focus from To and Cc text field using the <tab>
key takes longer than switching from Subject to the body. By "longer" I
mean, I can observe it visibly. It still is as fast, as it significantly
is below a disturbing threshold. That's on my systems, of course.

How long does it take on your machine? Are you suffering from a slow
machine?


> On previous 1.4.x versions, the focus seemed to be on the text of the
> buttons (Guenther highlighted that for me), thus the delay, but in 1.4.6
> it is not, and I can't understand why it takes some time to move from
> one field to another. (I'm still using 1.2.4 at work and the problem
> doesn't exist).

IMHO that lag is due to this bug:
 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42864

As some input fields do have a wrong height, there is quite some
rendering necessary. You can watch the text "dancing" when switching
focus after entering receiver addresses.

This is an old bug, still valid in recent developer snapshots. I
mentioned it occasionally on this list, hopefully it will be fixed
before 2.0 is released.


FWIW: There likely won't be any fixes for 1.4.x versions any more,
unless they are security issues. Major work and progress is done on the
1.5 developer versions, that will lead to the stable 2.0 release.

...guenther


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