GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709811
Empathy chat: Ctrl+L (clear conversation) and scrolling doesn't work as expected
Last modified: 2016-07-22 02:13:29 UTC
I encountered weird behavior of empathy chat. There is shortcut ctrl+l which should clear current conversation. It clears what is in the window (part of the previous conversation + current conversation) but immediately shows earlier part of previous conversations. Another press of ctrl+l clears shown text but again shows some previous part right after that ...and so on. Scrolling as well behaves strangely. When I open chat window, there is shown part of previous conversation as expected. On quick up-and-down scrolling another parts of previous text appears in the window. 1. start empathy 2. open chat with someone you previously chatted with 3. part of the previous conversation is shown 4a. press ctrl+l 4b. repeatedly scroll quickly up and down 5a. text is cleared but another text appears 5b. new part chat history is shown on every scroll down
Created attachment 296171 [details] [review] Ctrl-L (Clear) blanks the current window. Will Thompson (Bug#550885) has proposed to design the clearance (Ctrl-L) of the chat window like in a terminal. I think, thats a good idea and it solves also the upper problem.
Created attachment 296172 [details] Ctrl-L blanks the current window. (Demo) A short demo.
*** Bug 550885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OK, thanks Attachment 296171 [details] pushed as 8ae80c0 - Ctrl-L (Clear) blanks the current window.