Bug 447762

Created attachment 306282 [details]
email showing the problem - when the scroll bars are generated, the grey appears

Created attachment 306283 [details]
Email preview pane showing the problem. The deleted email line makes no difference

(In reply to comment #0)
> Killing evolution-data-server fixes the problem for a while

You mean killing just the evolution-data-server process, right?  As opposed to
"evolution --force-shutdown".

That strikes me as odd because the e-d-s process isn't involved in rendering or
really anything to do with email at all.  Unless addressbook lookups are
factoring into this somehow...

killing e-d-s does it as does the force-shutdown, but not as well.

This is still happening with evolution 2.23.2-1.fc10. Is there any way around
having to continually having to do a --force-shutdown every 6 or so emails?

I have no idea yet on this one.  I'm not seeing it at all and haven't heard of
similar reports from others.

What version of gtkhtml3 are you using?  And what desktop theme?

gtkhtml3 - 3.23.2-4
Clearlooks theme

This happened to me only once, last week, As far as I can tell, the status bar
widget is also somehow strange, so I guess it's related to packing. In time it
was broken, I saw there a "Formatting message" in a preview area, but as soon as
the message was formatted, then the gray block covered all the preview area.
There was also one interesting thing, the links and clickable addresses in a
preview are worked fine. (I didn't see them, but move cursor was changing.) The
problem is it works fine next time I run Evolution.

If either of you figure out how to reproduce this consistently, please post
instructions here.  I still have not seen it for myself.

The problem looks to be a formatting one. If everything goes grey, highlight the
lot and change from Normal in the formatting drop down to unformatted and
everything reappears.

Change back to normal and it goes grey again

Created attachment 313585 [details]
new composer

Here is what I am seeing. Initially, a new mail comes up with a big gray area that doesn't redraw properly (see the shadow that a window left there), and just a single line of white, editable area.

Created attachment 313586 [details]
after some editing

When editing, the white area expands to fill the space, but the text is repeated multiple times...

Upstream bug similar to comment #12:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546587

*** Bug 458209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Based on the upstream bug [1] it seems like gtk+ issue.
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546754

Text from there:
the evolution mail composer has rendering issues when using gtk 2.13.6 (the
text is displayed duplicated in a second column, the textview area is wrong
when opening the composer, etc), when resizing the dialog everything is
correctly displayed again so that seems a refreshing issue, using gtk 2.13.5
there is no such issues

killing plugins solves the problem (evolution --disable-eplugin), but then that means the likes of spamassassin is dead...

Killing eplugins and running from the command line reveals some a11y problems. I'm not sure if they're related though.

subcell_view 0x830da0 deleted before the a11y object 0xb4204780
subcell_view 0x830da0 deleted before the a11y object 0x9e38458
subcell_view 0x830da0 deleted before the a11y object 0xb4262b70
subcell_view 0x830da0 deleted before the a11y object 0xb4262470

This bug has been triaged

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