Re: [Evolution] To: field dropdown steals focus from compose window

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:05 -0500, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:

> I filed this with Bugzilla on 7 Jul '03 as bug #45931.  Reviewing it now
> I see you added your comments to it back then.  If you check this bug
> again you'll see there has yet to be any response from anyone at
> Ximian.  I've about given up on it and am now, reluctantly, avoiding
> address completion as I never know when I'll be forced to switch out to
> a tty and kill evolution when this happens.  We must be the only two
> Evolution users who are seeing this problem as I can't seem to get any
> traction with the developers.

you might try taking a look at what patches we ship with our gtk2 source rpms - perhaps we fixed a focus issue or 2 in gtk that your OS vendor has not added to their rpms?

(actually, I *know* we have fixed gtk2 focus issues... just not sure if any affected the auto-completion stuff)

Jeff

> -norm
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 22:42, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > I am running Evolution 1.4.6 here, with gnome 2.4, gtk+ 2.2.4 and
> > metacity 2.6.3.  There seems to be a very annoying issue with the
> > address match dropdown when typing into the (for example) To: field when
> > composing a message.  It doesn't seem to happen every time, but it's
> > often enough be very annoying.
> > 
> > In evolution, I click New on the menubar to compose a new message.  A
> > new composition window comes up and has input focus due to metacity's
> > (PITA if you ask me) policy that new windows always get focus.  This is
> > fine so far.
> > 
> > I start typing into the To: field and after 3 characters I get a list of
> > matching addresses in a dropdown box.
> > 
> > The problem is that about half the time, as the dropdown box appears,
> > the compose window loses input focus and I am unable to give focus to
> > any other window, presumably because while the dropdown box is active,
> > focus cannot be assigned anywhere else.
> > 
> > I am now left with no windows in focus and no way to focus any windows
> > and since the compose window is among the "no windows in focus" I cannot
> > continue typing or choose an address list from the dropdown.  I have to
> > either go to another machine and log in remotely (or change to another
> > VT) and kill evolution.
> > 
> > Is this an evolution bug (not likely) a gtk+ bug or a metacity bug?
> > 
> > b.
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