GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 784553
On Ubuntu, pressing Alt or AltGr makes email recipient address field in mail composer lose focus and hence an unwanted comma is added while typing
Last modified: 2019-11-12 19:10:31 UTC
Using Evolution 3.22.6-1ubuntu1 amd64 on a Ubuntu 17.04 When I compose a new message and enter an email address that is not (yet) a known contact, when I type the @ symbol an additional comma is inserted, too. What I typed: support@gmx.de What ended up in the recipient field: support, @gmx.de The problem only occurs when using a German (Switzerland) keyboard layout. With that keyboard layout, the @ symbol is typed using the key combination [Alt Gr]+[2]. The unwanted comma appears immediately when I start pressing the [Alt Gr] key. The comma also appears when I press the [Alt] key. The issue occurs in all three recipient fields of the email composer. I have not found any other input fields or keys that are affected by this issue. (Didn't search very thoroughly, though.) The issue has been around for a couple months now.
Going to "Region & Language" in the GNOME Control Center and adding "German (Switzerland)" as an Input Method, and using Super + Space to switch to that, I can NOT reproduce the problem on Fedora 25. Have you reported this problem to Ubuntu's bugtracker and their input methods?
Thank you André for your lightning fast response! Excellent idea, I found a comprehensive report on Ubuntu's bugtracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1501004 On Ubuntu the input fields seem to lose focus and immediately regain it when [Alt] or [Alt Gr] are pressed. And Evolution indiscriminately adds a comma when gaining focus. Both of these behaviours combined produce this unfortunate bug. Personally I'd like the recipient fields to not add commas ever. But I understand that some people quite like the automatic addition of a comma. What do you think about adding a comma upon focus gain only when the field already contains a valid email address?
> On Ubuntu the input fields seem to lose focus and immediately regain it > when [Alt] or [Alt Gr] are pressed. Cannot reproduce in GNOME on Fedora. Bluntly speaking, Ubuntu could fix its window manager or patch Evolution in Ubuntu...? As I cannot reproduce any behavior in Evolution here that I'd consider a bug. Hence proposing to decline this ticket as "RESOLVED NOTGNOME". (For the records, I can reproduce the problem on Fedora when actively pressing Super+Space to change the input method while entering an email address. But that is a different problem and not the behavior you're describing here...)
This can be related to bug #777141, which landed for 3.24.0 only.
I could not reproduce when I was on 3.22. Setting status to NEEDINFO as this needs to be retested on Ubuntu with 3.24 or newer.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment. Thanks!