Troy Dawson wrote:
Troy Dawson wrote:
Troy Dawson wrote:
Frank, Schluenzen wrote:
Hi Stephan,
since the update to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3, we observe problems
with positioning the cursor in text input boxes, like the one for
the URL, the search engine, and also widgets embeeded in web pages:
Neither the mouse nor the cursor keys can be used to position the
cursor anywhere except at the very beginning or the very end of the
string.
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.slc3 has the same problem.
Could someone confirm that they're seeing this as well? Any ideas
how to work around this?
yup, I see the same problem. Actually, it's still possible to move
around
within the text boxes with mouse and/or cursor - just the pointer
(|) doesn't
update the position (which is just as bad) ...
The firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position-more.patch apparently doesn't
work properly under SL3 (see PS:). After removing the patch from
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3's spec and rebuilding the rpm everything
seems to work fine .... at least the pointer positions correctly
within the text boxes...
I guess there is a good chance that similar patches make their way
into thunderbird as well !?
Ciao, Frank.
PS: After fiddling a bit with the code: the patch introduces
inRendContext->GetRangeWidth to deduce the (pixel) length of a
substring within a text-field which is then used to calculate the
actual position of the pointer within the text field. As it turns
out, the function always returns the length of the complete string
rather than that of the substring (whyever) - so that the pointer
appears to get stuck at the end (or start) of the string. well,
didn't try to dig any further ....
Hi Frank,
I *thought* we actually were disabling all pango stuff when we
changed "enable-pango" to "disable-pango". But it looks like their
patch doesn't honor that setting enough.
Troy
I'm debating. Should I fix this, or use this as motivation for people
to stop using firefox and thunderbird on SL3 and move to seamonkey.
SL 309 does *not* have firefox or thunderbird. At some point, people
are going to have to transition off firefox and thunderbird to
seamonkey is they are going to stay on SL 3.
Troy
Looking between thunderbird and firefox, I believe the problem isn't
with the patch, or the disabling pango in the config file, but in
firefox's spec file, they have a hack, where they link some pango
headers over.
What happens if you take those links out of the spec file?
I'm going to try it myself, but since building it takes a long time, I
was wondering if anyone had already tried it.
Troy
For those that are wondering, the answer is nope, just commenting out those
links doesn't fix the problem. I'll just take the patch out like it was
originally proposed.
Troy
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