GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591816
Email completion breaks entered email address
Last modified: 2010-09-30 05:49:37 UTC
Please describe the problem: When typing an email address in the To: field, and pressing Enter at the wrong moment, the address is auto-completed, but messed up. Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter first 4/5 letters of an email address in your address book 2. Wait a random amount of time 3. Press Enter Actual results: Gives: firs, "t@domain.nl" <first@domain.nl> with comma in it and quotes mess. Expected results: Probably: first@domain.nl <first@domain.nl> Does this happen every time? No, but quite often. Other information: Possibly the timing of this is better reproducable when using auto-completion together with remote (google, webcal) address books.
(In reply to comment #0) > 2. Wait a random amount of time How much is this? 4 seconds, 2 years? :)
:-) ~0.5sec after having entered the last character i suppose. Probably just about a round trip time to a web contact list.
This remains really strange and with a 100% hit rate on my computer. And it's not related to remote address books, since also happens when those are disabled. The timing is also not relevant I noticed, as I can wait for ages before the first enter and it still happens. One more try at describing it: I type 'abcd', which completes this address for me: abcd*e@domain.com with the cursor at the * and the part behind it appears 'selected' from the completion. Pressing enter now results in: abc, *de@domain.com <abcde@domain.com> Now pressing backspace twice to get rid of the comma and space results in: abc, "de@domain.com" <abcde@domain.com>
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 558478 ***