Re: [evolution-patches] Patch for GtkHTML and Composer, take two

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 19:58, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >       * The items that don't really need a cursor to operate should be
> >         available and sensitive at all times; e.g. "Find" and "Replace"
> >         would probably be a bit annoying if they were insensitive when
> >         the focus is not in the main text.
> 
> Ah, but wouldn't you expect them to Find/Replace on the focused entry?
> :)  I have no idea.

I've never seen find/replace working for an entry, so I would say no...
;-)

> If merging conflicting items doesn't do the right thing, it should be
> easy to fix BonoboUI to do it properly.  That's the only Bonobo-side bug
> now as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> I don't mean to sound harsh, but I really don't want to spend any more
> time on this right now :)  But please feel free to ask me about other
> focus/activation issues.  It is the merging code that I don't know well.

Larry volunteered to revert to the old behavior before we release 1.4.5
tomorrow...  I guess we can look into fixing this properly for 2.0.

We are a bit too overloaded with other stuff for fixing it in 1.4.x, so
if anyone else wants to step forward and re-implement the logic of the
menu merging code the way I outlined, please go ahead.  :)

-- Ettore