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Bug 756501 - Delete key in folder view no longer deletes messages
Delete key in folder view no longer deletes messages
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 755730
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.18.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 756502 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-13 13:33 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2015-10-15 13:06 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sam Morris 2015-10-13 13:33:12 UTC 
Since upgrading to 3.18, the delete key has stopped working in the folder view. It still works if I press it while viewing a message.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2015-10-14 11:59:37 UTC 
Thanks for a bug report. It seems like some anti-feature of gtk3, because the Delete key press works with gtk3 3.16.6, but not with gtk3 3.18.1. I tried to debug this with gdb and with the non-working gtk3 the mail_reader_key_press_event_cb() is not called when the Delete key is pressed.

Hmm, some more debugging and updates of my machines led me to a working state. What I do:
a) run evolution
b) click to focus the message list
c) press Delete key, or arrows, or other message-list related keys, and they
   work

That is, the problem is about the widget which has focus. The focus issue is discussed at bug #755730, thus I mark this as a duplicate of it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 755730 ***
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2015-10-14 12:43:08 UTC 
*** Bug 756502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Sam Morris 2015-10-15 13:06:40 UTC 
Ok, I did some fiddling around and found that I was in offline mode. I found that when I went back into online mode, the delete key worked again. So this might have been user error, rather than a dupe... not sure. I now can't reproduce it by going offline again... so maybe toggling my offline/online status fixed whatever weird focus state I got into that caused delete to stop working in the first place.