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Bug 372832 - text-formating get lost
text-formating get lost
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
: 351714 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-09 07:52 UTC by Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni
Modified: 2008-02-26 20:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Attachments
Patch to fix the problem (574 bytes, patch)
2007-01-30 23:26 UTC, Chris Scobell
needs-work Details | Review

Description Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2006-11-09 07:52:47 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Every text-formating get lost, after you write something behind formatted text.



Steps to reproduce:
How to reproduce this bug:

1. Open a note (new or old)
2a. Choose a format (like bold, big text etc)
2b. Write a text and then mark it and choose a format

3. edit this current or next line (e.g. continue writing)



Actual results:
The metadata/format got lost

Expected results:
The format don't got lost.

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
something maybe related:

you write a link-text (MyLink, /home/user/ or www.gnome.org)
tomboy will not be automatically create link from this string, until you push return

Bugreport in Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/51417

I have this problem with official packages from Ubuntu also with self-compiled sources 0.3.5, 4.0, 4.1
Comment 1 Chris Hamons 2006-11-09 22:11:57 UTC
I can confirm on .4.1. After selecting a secondary style on selected text, newly typed next will have no formatting.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2006-11-09 22:19:37 UTC
(adding version information, though it's not *that* important) :-)
Comment 3 Boyd Timothy 2006-12-19 14:06:18 UTC
Keywan (from the mailing list) reports that this occurs in 0.5.2 as well.
Comment 4 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2006-12-19 20:00:55 UTC
Still happens with version .5.1 and .5.2

AHH, I am so stupid. forgot to post this. This comment was open in my browser the whole day :D
Comment 5 zerohalo 2007-01-16 20:05:43 UTC
This seems to be the same or similar to the problem I had, reported here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351714

I found the problem disappeared with the 0.5.3 update.
Comment 6 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2007-01-20 00:39:27 UTC
This problem stil appear with 0.5.4.

Please, could somebody spend love to tomboy at this issue? It makes tomboy really unusable for me. I can use tomboy just as a plaintext sticky note

It is really the same es 351714, but it didn't disapeared. 

I also moved my ~/.tomboy and started with a fresh one and have the same problem in the default/first run "start here" note.

I copied my ~/.tomboy to another computer dapper and tomboy (the original one from  dapper) and didn't have the problem their.

I have a PowerPC with Ubuntu Edgy and built tomboy from source. Maybe the problem is related on PowerPC plattform. I ask a friend with Ubuntu/PowerPC to test this bug. If I can help anybody somehow (even with shell access) let me know.

Comment 7 zerohalo 2007-01-26 18:23:35 UTC
Update: I spoke too soon (#5 above) about the problem being gone with 0.5.3. When I first upgraded to 0.5.3 it seemed to be okay, but the next time I rebooted, the problem is back. Starting off with a brand new set of notes solves the problem, but that's not an option for me as I have hundreds of Tomboy notes. 
Comment 8 zerohalo 2007-01-26 18:25:53 UTC
*** Bug 351714 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2007-01-29 23:52:20 UTC
same procedure as every release : this bug still appear in 0.5.5

Can I halb you somehow to fix this bug. I just want to point out, that tomboy is with this bug just unusable. I can't use my favorite and most useful application :(

Maybe the priority of this bug is too low?
Comment 10 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2007-01-29 23:54:01 UTC
I meant help, not halb (german for half). No idea why I wrote halb. ...
Comment 11 Chris Scobell 2007-01-30 23:26:51 UTC
Created attachment 81557 [details] [review]
Patch to fix the problem

This patch adds any growable tags from the previous character into the active_tags list whenever the insertion mark is changed.
Comment 12 Boyd Timothy 2007-01-30 23:33:15 UTC
Seems to work...unless I attempt to type in some text after a bugzilla link.
Comment 13 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2007-03-11 18:42:16 UTC
Is this patch integrated in version 0.6.0 ? I have still the problem. How can I apply the patch and test it. 

As a reminder: Tomboy is for me useless since version 0.3.5 when this bug appears. Tomboy was before my favorite app', now I nearly never use it. Can I help you somehow? Do you need shell access on my machine to reproduce it or free brownies at the next GUADEC? 
Comment 14 Chardon Bertrand 2007-03-16 13:18:23 UTC
I experience the very same problem using Tomboy 0.6.1 on Ubuntu Feisty with a freshly created note.

Steps to reproduce : Create a new note, type some text, format it and then delete a character by hitting either backspace or delete, the text should lose its format. 
Comment 15 Chardon Bertrand 2007-03-16 13:30:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> I experience the very same problem using Tomboy 0.6.1 on Ubuntu Feisty with a
> freshly created note.
> 
> Steps to reproduce : Create a new note, type some text, format it and then
> delete a character by hitting either backspace or delete, the text should lose
> its format. 
> 

The bug disappears when I deactivate the Reminder plugin, which was the only plugin not coming with the default install. May be the source of the problem, though we can not be 100% sure.
Comment 16 Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni 2007-03-17 12:03:12 UTC
Oh, thank you chardon. I removed the reminder plugin and all problems I described dissapeared. Halleluja :D

Comment 17 Raphael Slinckx 2007-03-24 22:24:22 UTC
The reminder plugin is quite unmaintained (i'm the original author). Someone should fix it :)
Comment 18 Sandy Armstrong 2007-03-24 22:38:19 UTC
Resolving as NOTGNOME since it was caused by an external plugin.  Hopefully someone will update this excellent plugin!