I filed this with Bugzilla on 7 Jul '03 as bug #45931. Reviewing it now I see you added your comments to it back then. If you check this bug again you'll see there has yet to be any response from anyone at Ximian. I've about given up on it and am now, reluctantly, avoiding address completion as I never know when I'll be forced to switch out to a tty and kill evolution when this happens. We must be the only two Evolution users who are seeing this problem as I can't seem to get any traction with the developers.
you might try taking a look at what patches we ship with our gtk2 source rpms - perhaps we fixed a focus issue or 2 in gtk that your OS vendor has not added to their rpms?
(actually, I *know* we have fixed gtk2 focus issues... just not sure if any affected the auto-completion stuff)
Jeff
-norm On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 22:42, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I am running Evolution 1.4.6 here, with gnome 2.4, gtk+ 2.2.4 and > metacity 2.6.3. There seems to be a very annoying issue with the > address match dropdown when typing into the (for example) To: field when > composing a message. It doesn't seem to happen every time, but it's > often enough be very annoying. > > In evolution, I click New on the menubar to compose a new message. A > new composition window comes up and has input focus due to metacity's > (PITA if you ask me) policy that new windows always get focus. This is > fine so far. > > I start typing into the To: field and after 3 characters I get a list of > matching addresses in a dropdown box. > > The problem is that about half the time, as the dropdown box appears, > the compose window loses input focus and I am unable to give focus to > any other window, presumably because while the dropdown box is active, > focus cannot be assigned anywhere else. > > I am now left with no windows in focus and no way to focus any windows > and since the compose window is among the "no windows in focus" I cannot > continue typing or choose an address list from the dropdown. I have to > either go to another machine and log in remotely (or change to another > VT) and kill evolution. > > Is this an evolution bug (not likely) a gtk+ bug or a metacity bug? > > b. -- Norman Joseph, Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] IC|XC Concurrent Technologies Corporation 814/269.2633 --+-- Global Systems Center NI|KA *** Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle *** _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
