Re: [Evolution] Strange behaviour of Reply

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 10:34 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've upgraded from 1.5.9.1 to 1.5.92.1 (on Fedora Core 2). When I hit
> Reply the following happens:
>
> 1) The composer opens with the quoted message displayed one word per
> line down the page.
> 2) Despite this, when I send the message the result is correctly
> formatted (I sent a few to myself to test this).
> 3) If I preselect the quoted text and then Reply, this doesn't happen,
> *even if the selection is the entire message*. Meaning I have a
> workaround so it isn't the end of the world.
>
> It doesn't seem to matter if the message is HTML or plain text, or if it
> Reply or ReplyAll, or if the character set is ASCII or not, or if it's a
> mailing list or not, or if it's PGP-signed or not.
>
> Is this a known bug?

This is a bug in gtkhtml 3.3.0; it was an error in converting between
Pango units and gtkhtml units.  It's fixed in Gnome CVS and an updated
version of the package for Fedora is working its way through our build
system.

Dave