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Bug 273794 - Caret mode has horrible page up / down behaviour
Caret mode has horrible page up / down behaviour
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: API
3.8.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-17 11:26 UTC by Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail)
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2005-03-17 11:26:48 UTC 
Description of Problem:

If you have Caret mode turned on (F7), then if you have a long email that
spans multiple pages, page up and down (the keyboard buttons) have a
dreadful behaviour, the scrollbar jumps about, and if you page up and then
page down, parts of the email are skipped

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Turn on Caret mode
2. Find an email that spans multiple pages, I have one with about 20 pages
3. Use Page up and down

Actual Results:

Parts of the email are skipped, and the scrollbar jumps horribly

Expected Results:

Nice smooth page up / down behaviour.

How often does this happen? 

Everytime
Comment 1 Subodh Soni 2005-05-26 10:55:16 UTC 
I am also able to replicate this problem in the following versions of gtkhtml
packages on NLD box:

gtkhtml2-3.6.2.0.200505251324-0.snap.novell.0.1
libgtkhtml-2.6.1-2.1
Comment 2 André Klapper 2006-01-10 01:33:11 UTC 
also see bug 318973, could be related
Comment 3 Irene Huang 2006-01-26 08:21:11 UTC 
I am sorry, but I cannot reproduce the bug with a mail that spans about 40 pages. Could you please give more details for how to reproduce?
Thanks
Comment 4 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2006-01-26 09:40:13 UTC 
I can't seem to reproduce this with evo 2.4 and gtkhtml 3.6.2, but comment #1 says that it can still happen with 3.6.2 ....
Comment 5 André Klapper 2006-03-04 23:13:58 UTC 
moving ancient 2.2 milestone to ancient 2.4 milestone. at least.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-05-19 00:06:28 UTC 
removing old target milestones
Comment 7 Irene Huang 2006-05-19 02:40:53 UTC 
Can anyone reproduce this bug? 
If not, can we simply close it?
Comment 8 Chris Heath 2006-12-06 04:11:46 UTC 
Yes, I can reproduce it.  The missing step in the instructions is:

2.5. Open the message in a new window (double-click or Ctrl-O).
Comment 9 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 01:03:11 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 10 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:33:54 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.