Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 11:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 11:31 +, Paul Smith wrote: > > ...The main issue seems to have been that Evolution relies on newer > > aspects of the GNOME system... Hi, the main dependency "issue" for evolution is not GNOME as

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 11:31 +, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 10:25 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 09:32 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Ubuntu fell out of love with Evolution a while back and their > > > preferred MUA was Thunderbird. At that point they

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Gottfried
Sorry, to take you OT. But your comments are helpful and thank you very much. On 05/12/2017 12:54, Andrea Vai wrote: Hi, Il giorno mar, 05/12/2017 alle 12.24 +0200, Gottfried ha scritto: So what would be possible to do? change the whole distribution? But don't the other distributions limit

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Andrea Vai
Hi, Il giorno mar, 05/12/2017 alle 12.24 +0200, Gottfried ha scritto: > So what would be possible to do? change the > whole distribution? But don't the other distributions limit the > other > software that I am using? In my understanding Ubuntu/LinuxMint are > those > distributions that make

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 12:24 +0200, Gottfried wrote: > This is actually the problem. how come that Ubuntu and therefore > LinuxMint use such an old version of Evolution? can't they just pass on > a newer version? Evolution is not a standalone programme. There are multiple parts to it and each

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Gottfried
This is actually the problem. how come that Ubuntu and therefore LinuxMint use such an old version of Evolution? can't they just pass on a newer version? The version used is by far not stable, at least not any more. And I do need different software in order to keep different accounts separate.

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 09:32 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > Ubuntu fell out of love with Evolution a while back and their preferred > MUA was Thunderbird. At that point they stopped keeping up with the > most current version of Evo in their distros and supplied ones that > were a couple of versions

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 16:06 -0800, bg wrote: > bg: > > > When I copy an email address into the buffer, it refuses to paste in > > > any of the address fields. > > > > Andre: > > > What is "the buffer" and how do you "copy" and how do you "paste"? > > bg: > > The buffer is a basic system

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-04 Thread bg
bg: > > When I copy an email address into the buffer,  it refuses to paste > in > > any of the address fields. > Andre: > What is "the buffer" and how do you "copy" and how do you "paste"? > bg: The buffer is a basic system function used by all forms of editor within the system - when I smack

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-04 Thread Milan Crha
On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 09:05 -0800, bg wrote: > Ubuntu 16.04 Evo 3.18.5.2 > > This only showed up in the latest version - never a problem > previously. Hi, unfortunately it's the latest version in your old distribution which provides you with an old version of Evolution. The current

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-04 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 09:05 -0800, bg wrote: > Ubuntu 16.04 Evo 3.18.5.2 > > This only showed up in the latest version - never a problem > previously. > > When I copy an email address into the buffer, it refuses to paste in > any of the address fields. What is "the buffer" and how do you

[Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-04 Thread bg
Ubuntu 16.04 Evo 3.18.5.2 This only showed up in the latest version - never a problem previously. When I copy an email address into the buffer,  it refuses to paste in any of the address fields. I find it difficult to believe that anyone could have conceived this as an enhancement, so would