Re: [Evolution] Need developers hint (to quickly fix bug)

[Roland Orre <orre bacon su se>]

I guess the problem with key bindings in evolution may be
in gtkhtml as well, so I downloaded gtkhtml-3.6.1. I don't
know if other, working applications, also use gtkhtml, or
if it is just evolution.

I would be very grateful if someone who knows how these
modules are glued together could give me a hint.
        Best regards
        Roland

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Roland Orre wrote:
> I know there are several developers listening on this list,
> now I've dowloaded the evolution 2.2.1.1 source (the
> latest available at www.gnome.org).
>
> The problem: Emacs keys only working in first composed message.
>
> To correct the key behaviour I would need a hint which file
> I need to start debugging. I suspect:
> message-tag-followup.c
> routine construct (MessageTagEditor *editor)
> but I'm lost so far, as I'm not experienced with gtk.
>
> Symptoms:
> Start evolution, ask for "New",
> editing keys working, i.e. they have emacs like behavior.
> Discard the composer, ask for "New" again.
> Now the editing keys are not working.
> When pressing e.g. Ctrl-A I get select instead of beginning of line.
>
> I need help, this need to be fixed. I actually like evolution,
> but I just can't use it if the editing keys are not working.
>
>
>       Best regards
>       Roland
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Roland Orre wrote:
> > Now I've cleary found that the key issue is a bug in evolution!
> >
> > I went to the shell, did
> > gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme -t string Emacs
> > just to be sure,
> > started evolution
> > went to the menu, asking for "New", then the keys worked in the
> > composer.
> > Discarded this mail, and asked for "New" again,
> > now the keys are fu..ed up!
> >
> > As this has been an issue for several years, I've had problems with
> > the  keys in evolution in every major upgrade I've done the last
> > years, since the emacs-key mode setting was removed from evolution.
> > I got it working every time, but now it seems as evolution
> > is finally dead.
> >
> > If someone could hint me about where to fix it, hint me about
> > how to get the fix quickly into the distribution, then I could
> > consider continue evolution, but with the important editing
> > keys messed up, it is useless.
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Roland
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Roland Orre wrote:
> > > Recently had a disk crash, good reason to upgrade..
> > >
> > > I'm now running gnome 2.1, evolution 2.2.1.1
> > >
> > > First mail composing, strange behaviour ahh, then I remember...
> > >
> > > gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme -t string Emacs
> > >
> > > and also to be sure, update the file
> > > /usr/share/gtkhtml-3.6/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor-emacs.xml
> > > with a file known to be good. (even made
> > > /usr/share/gtkhtml-3.6/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor.xml
> > > point to same, just to be sure)
> > >
> > > Restart evolution, and now the keys works Ahh, wonderful.
> > > until... I don't know what happened, (a few machine restarts)
> > > just suddenly I had the same problem again.
> > >
> > > The keys works in every other gtk application, like editing
> > > forms, editing gmails, editing the browser address line etc.
> > >
> > > I just get wrong keys, the menu accel keys e.g. Select all
> > > are empty.
> > >
> > > What can be wrong, why is evolution the only application
> > > where I get this problem? And why doesn't it help to
> > > restart it?
> > >
> > >   Best regards
> > >   Roland Orre
> > >
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