GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 750139
Saving as draft moves the cursor at the top
Last modified: 2015-06-03 15:22:33 UTC
As I write an email I use File, Save as Draft (CTRL+S) from time to time. But then the cursor goes at the top of the text, instead it should stay at the current position. Before version 3.2 I have not seen this effect, but in 3.10 it is still there.
Thanks for a bug report, but 3.10 is obsolete for many months, the same for 3.12. The current stable version of evolution is 3.16.2. Please use that and report any similar bugs against it, not against almost 16 months old evolution (the 3.10.4 was released on February 10th, 2014).
I use Ubuntu 14.04. It is a Long Term Release! Even Ubuntu 15.04 or Debian 8 doesn't use Evolution 3.16, they have 3.12 in it. How should I use 3.16? But YOU are on the source, you can try it out. If the problem isn't there, I will accept this of course. But if it is, you can fix it. I don't have the chance to try out a never version. And if the error really exists, it will never be fixed because of such statements. On my eyes this is not user friendly.
You are not seeing the whole picture. You talk to the "upstream" here, not to your distribution. The upstream is not able to support each single distribution out there, it's for the distribution maintainers. Thus do tell to them, not to the upstream. There is also no enough man power to take care of such old release like 3.10.x. There are distributions providing latest stable releases. You chose one which doesn't. I'm doing my best to support the Evolution, but I'm able to do it only for the latest releases. If you see it as "not user friendly", then remember, limited man power.
A little update, I've got to 3.12.11 install and clicking "Save as Draft" there moves the cursor to the very top, as you reported. Doing the same in 3.16.2.1, the cursor is kept where it was before pressing the Save as Draft, thus this is fixed in the current stable version (one of the reasons is that the message composer uses webkitgtk3, instead of GtkHTML, which required quite big changes in the background).
Thank you very much. I unserstand you, really. But it is not easy to decide whether to report the error at the distributor or upstream. My experience is that the distributor simply says: this is an error upstream. Which distro uses the most actual version of Evolution? Years ago this was Ubuntu, but in the meantime it isn't, I know.
(In reply to dbet1 from comment #5) > Thank you very much. I unserstand you, really. But it is not easy to decide > whether to report the error at the distributor or upstream. My experience is > that the distributor simply says: this is an error upstream. Right. I'm also sometimes confused where to report my bugs, which bugzilla is better. Sometimes the maintainer of a downstream bugzilla is right, sometimes not. I know the process of playing "ping-pong" with a user to redirect him/her to the other place is not ideal too. > Which distro uses the most actual version of Evolution? Years ago this was > Ubuntu, but in the meantime it isn't, I know. I'm not able to answer this. There are surely more distributions, with more or less custom repositories (there is some gnome3 PPA for Ubuntu too, but as I do not use Ubuntu I'm not aware of the exact link. I use Fedora, which has at least the latest stable version - the one which was current when that Fedora version was about to release. On the other hand, there is no currently LTS in Fedora (I'm not aware of any at least).