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Bug 232065 - Selection jumps around when deleting in phone-list view
Selection jumps around when deleting in phone-list view
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: evolution-addressbook-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 225708 321633 322256 322690 421701 440095 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 327508 327510
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-10 16:17 UTC by aaron
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
In the patch the selection is moved to the first contact after the deletion of a contact in phone-list view. (1.47 KB, patch)
2006-09-07 11:04 UTC, ushveen kaur 		rejected Details | Review
Patch from Ebby Wiselyn (2.18 KB, patch)
2007-02-26 05:56 UTC, Srinivasa Ragavan 		committed Details | Review

Description aaron 2002-10-10 16:17:31 UTC 
Create a few contacts that you want to delete, and scatter them in amongst
contacts you want to keep. View as phonelist, sort by the first column
("File As), and select one in the middle to delete.

Delete it.

You have deleted the only selected item, so the selection should either
move one up or one down in the list, or just revert to no-selection.

However, it moves to a seemingly arbitrary other point-- perhaps to the
next or previous item in some internal sort mechanism that is not clear to me.
Comment 1 Gerardo Marin 2004-03-01 01:29:24 UTC 
Any chance to test this against 1.5?
Comment 2 aaron 2004-03-03 19:23:22 UTC 
This works fine 90% of the time, but it still jumps occasionally. Not
important which column you sort by.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2004-04-14 12:56:56 UTC 
*** bug 225708 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Gerardo Marin 2004-04-15 04:35:07 UTC 
Still an issue in 1.5.6
Comment 5 JP Rosevear 2004-07-16 17:30:52 UTC 
Not a regression
Comment 6 André Klapper 2004-12-09 13:50:54 UTC 
can still reproduce this with
evolution-2.0.2.0.200412060900-0.snap.ximian.10.1.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2005-03-23 16:33:20 UTC 
still valid in evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1,
retargetting to 2.5 - it's not a regression and i don't think that
this is important to have fixed in 2.3.
Comment 8 Srinivasa Ragavan 2005-08-24 06:30:55 UTC 
I tried it, When u delete a entry it moved to next one. If it is the last it
selected the previous one. I guess this is right. But im not able to see any
other behaviour
Comment 9 André Klapper 2005-11-20 10:55:01 UTC 
*** Bug 321633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 John Russell 2005-11-20 15:43:50 UTC 
I just tried this in 2.5.2 and it is still is a problem.  Sorted by File As,
delete an entry and the selection goes to some seemingly arbitrary point in the
contact list.  Srinivasa, what version were you using?  have you tried it in
2.5.2?  Thx
Comment 11 Srinivasa Ragavan 2005-11-21 03:47:24 UTC 
John, i tried in head build. May be im not following a series of steps. If you
could give me the steps, sure i can help.
Comment 12 André Klapper 2005-11-24 23:38:00 UTC 
srini, this is definitely still valid in address crad view in 2.5.2, i'm also
seeing this here. reopening.
Comment 13 André Klapper 2005-11-24 23:38:10 UTC 
*** Bug 322256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 André Klapper 2005-11-29 00:01:20 UTC 
*** Bug 322690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 André Klapper 2005-11-29 00:04:17 UTC 
please test bug 322691 after fixing this, could be the same reason
Comment 16 André Klapper 2006-05-30 01:59:35 UTC 
retargetting
Comment 17 André Klapper 2006-08-22 21:40:58 UTC 
still in 2.7.92. retargetting.
Comment 18 ushveen kaur 2006-09-07 11:04:36 UTC 
Created attachment 72370 [details] [review]
In the patch the selection is moved to the first contact after the deletion of a contact in phone-list view.

I think,moving the selection to the first contact as a consistent behaviour is a good solution to the problem.
Comment 19 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-02-26 05:56:18 UTC 
Created attachment 83359 [details] [review]
Patch from Ebby Wiselyn
Comment 20 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-02-26 06:00:31 UTC 
I have tested this and committed to HEAD. Im closing this bug. This should be part of 2.9.92.
Comment 21 André Klapper 2007-02-26 11:43:49 UTC 
i applied the patch and it does not work correctly here - reopening. are any other patches also needed?
Comment 22 André Klapper 2007-02-26 12:19:43 UTC 
/me should test this tonight again when recompiling entire gnome
Comment 23 Akhil Laddha 2007-03-23 06:31:36 UTC 
*** Bug 421701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 24 André Klapper 2007-05-21 11:34:13 UTC 
*** Bug 440095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***