Bug 507986

Summary:	pidgin chat box doesn't always update with new text
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ian Laurie <nixuser>
Component:	pidgin	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	stu, wtogami
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Description Ian Laurie 2009-06-25 01:02:42 UTC

Description of problem:
pidgin chat box doesn't always update with new text

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
many versions up to and including pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc10.i386 (Fedora 10)
many versions up to and including pidgin-2.5.7 (Windows XP)

How reproducible:
random but very often, certainly multiple times per EVERY chat session

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a chat with someone
2. now and then, text fails to appear in the upper chat box
3.
  
Actual results:
Often pidgin does not update the chat box with new text. The user is forced to click the chat box to give it focus, and re-click the text entry box.  This forces the text to appear.  Seems to be only the outgoing text that fails to show up in the upper chat box. This problem exists for me on multiple platforms (Windows and Linux) and goes back many versions.

Expected results:
Text should always appear in the upper box without having to toggle its focus.

Additional info:
This problems exists on both the current Windows and Linux versions of pidgin, and has existed in many recent versions.

Comment 1 Ian Laurie 2009-06-26 00:19:17 UTC

I can confirm the problem is in pidgin-2.5.7-1.fc10 for fedora 10 also.  Presumably fedora 11 would also suffer from this bug.

Comment 2 Ian Laurie 2009-07-14 01:19:34 UTC

Same thing in latest release on fedora 11 ---> pidgin-2.5.8-1.fc11.i586

Comment 3 Warren Togami 2009-11-09 20:16:08 UTC

What window manager or desktop environment are you using?

Comment 4 Ian Laurie 2009-11-26 04:19:22 UTC

Default GNOME on Linux.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 15:14:38 UTC

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 13:17:14 UTC

Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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