Re: [Evolution] Very Annoying Behaviour of Keyboard Input

[Martin Bitter <martin bitter t-online de>]

Thanks Pete!

I found out that this is 
Bug 677970 bugzilla.gnome.org. This is related to gtk3-XXX

Maybe I should switch to Kubuntu 14.04. 

Martin



Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2014, 12:22 +0100 schrieb Pete Biggs:
> > I'm using Evolution  3.2.3 with Kubuntu/Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS precise
> > pangolin on a i686 athlon machine with the KDE plasma desktop.
>
> > Keyboard input in fields (like subject, addresses and so on) isn't
> > recognized. Clicking is well recognized. The only solution is to restart
> > EVO.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> It's not something I've seen anybody mention before on this list - I
> suspect though that it's something to do with using Evo under KDE.
> Perhaps there has been some update to KDE that has made things worse?
>
> But - and this is something you won't like hearing, but is nevertheless
> the situation - 3.2.3 is very old, current version is 3.10.x/3.12.x, and
> as such there is little to no chance of anything being done to Evo
> itself to fix the problem, if it is an Evo issue.  This is inevitably a
> consequence of using LTS/Enterprise/whatever versions of Linux and
> ultimately it comes down to being the distro maintainers responsibility
> to provide the support if they package obsolete versions of software.
> (This is NOT a dig at Ubuntu, the same situation arises for
> RHEL/CentOS/SL, Suse and so on.)
>
> So, if no one else here comes up with an answer, you may like to ask on
> the relevant Ubuntu forums to see if others are experiencing similar
> issues.
>
> P.
>
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