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Bug 322245 - Evolution behaves badly when handling HTML mail (deletes stuff, scrolls down)
Evolution behaves badly when handling HTML mail (deletes stuff, scrolls down)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
3.8.x
Other other
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 324481 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-23 16:06 UTC by Romain Riviere
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12



Description Romain Riviere 2005-11-23 16:06:40 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable
Package: GtkHtml
Severity: normal
Version: GNOME2.10.2 unspecified
Gnome-Distributor: Debian
Synopsis: Evolution behaves badly when handling HTML mail (deletes stuff, scrolls down)
Bugzilla-Product: GtkHtml
Bugzilla-Component: Editing
Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
Description:
Description of Problem:
Whenever I reply to an HTML message in HTML, Evolution suddenyl behaves
very strangely. The two most annoying problems are :
- when placing the text cursor somewhere down the mail, focus tends to
stick there too even while scrolling up, causing constant scrolling back
down to where the cursor is
- pressing backspace while typing text inline deletes the *WHOLE* rest
of the message

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Reply to an HTML formatted email
2. Insert text somewhere between paragraphs of the original message for
example
3. Press backspace (correct a typo for example)

Actual Results:
Most of the time, deletes everything from the cursor location to the end
of the massage. More rarely, just deletes the rest of the paragraph

Expected Results:
Backspace 1 character

How often does this happen?
Every single time I reply to HTML messages

Additional Information:
It is also impossible to "break" the original HTML indentation so as to
insert part of your answer in between : your input gets the same
indentation as the original email. And most strangely, the same
phenomenon also applies when replying to an HTML message IN PLAIN TEXT.
So maybe this but isn't only gtkhtml-related, I don't know ...

evolution         		2.2.3-5
gtkhtml3.6                    3.6.2-1




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@gnome.bugs 2005-11-23 16:06 UTC -------


The original reporter of this bug does not have
   an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved
   it here, unknown@gnome.bugs.
   Previous reporter was romain.riviere@nerim.net.

Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-11-28 13:42:29 UTC
hi romain,
thanks for reporting. sounds odd.

second part could be a duplicate of bug 300130 which is fixed in 2.4.x.
is there a chance to update to evolution-2.4.1/gtkhtml-3.8?
Comment 2 Romain Riviere 2005-11-28 16:38:54 UTC
Indeed, the behaviour is similar to that described un bug 300130. In fact, when
I reply to an HTML message in plain text, I get *sometimes* these containers,
delimited with very small dashes, that look like the one that appears when you
want to edit text in the signature.
And indeed, if I try to delete/backspace a character, everything from the cursor
to the end of the block disappears.
I'll get 2.4.1 from Debian Experimental (after I've saved my data) and see what
happens.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-11-28 17:05:43 UTC
hi romain, thanks for the answer.
setting to NEEDINFO, please REOPEN when adding more information.
Comment 4 Romain Riviere 2005-12-22 13:20:03 UTC
Getting 2.4.1 from experimental would actually require an awful load of upgrades, so I won't be doing that anytime soon, sorry :/
Comment 5 Romain Riviere 2006-01-26 10:36:33 UTC
Right, solved in evo 2.4.2.1 (from experimental) as far as the "disappearing lines" bug is concerned. However, it still is impossible to insert your answer in the middle of the quoted text with no indentation at all. Meaning that if I want to reply to :
---
Hello !

How are you ? 

See you !
---
I cannot have this :

>Hello !
Hi there

> How are you ?
I'm Ok 

etc. The indentation is "unbreakable", both in plain text and HTML mode.
Cheerio !
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-01-26 12:26:33 UTC
hmm. strange.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2006-03-07 16:23:07 UTC
related to bug 329509 and bug 307005
Comment 8 André Klapper 2006-08-29 11:09:13 UTC
*** Bug 324481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Gavin Hamill 2009-03-20 15:37:52 UTC
Mm, 2 and a half years have passed but this problem has not gone away...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/340225

Comment 10 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:39:05 UTC
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.