From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Searching for text in the body of messages, garbles up parts of the message, and highlighting of the search-string matches is messed up Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using: search: Body contains. 2. Enter a string to search for. 3. press the search button -> the messages conting the string are displayed (correctly) 4. Click one of the messages to see the contents. 5. Notice that the search string is not, or in other cases only partially highlithed (example in http://members.chello.nl/a.t.meinen/evohighlight.png) 6. Notice that part of the message (in this case the footer is garbled up) Compare the same message displayed without the search string 'filter': http://members.chello.nl/a.t.meinen/evohighlight2.png Actual Results: see the first screenshot Expected Results: search string match should be highlighted correctly, text message should not be displayed garbled up. Additional info: -This is only a display thing. Text is not actually altered. -Searching does produce a correct list of found messages. -I have reports from people on IRC that they don't see the behaviour on their distribution. But perhaps these people didn't understand the problem correctly. -Someone suggested it might be dependant on the used theme. I found no such dependancy. -bug was in evolution 2.0.0. as well --This bug is pretty visible, I'm surprised it wasn't reported earlier. Oh well...
this bug is still present in evolution-2.0.2-1
I filed the bug upstream in ximian's bugzilla, but apparently this is a fedora problem. It might be related to a wrong gtkhtml package? This is the relevant ximian bug: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68463
I think it's a gtkhtml3 bug. I'm seeing similar symptoms (no highlighting at all, in fact), with gtkhtml3-3.3.2-3 What version are you running?
(we're running the gtkhtml 3.3.* branch in order to make use of Owen Taylor's work on improved Pango support there; I believe most other people are running the 3.2.* branch - so this could explain why it's a FC3-specific bug)
Thanks for looking into this. I was feeling kinda lonely in here...:) I was using gtkhtml3-3.3.2-3 as well. But on a fc2 system, with a gtkhtml3-3.1.16-2 version evolution2 shows the same problems. Note: When you search for just the occurance of one word, you usually do not see any highlighting at all. If you type part of a whole sentence, if you are lucky, some words will highlight (partly).
Alright I think a found a pattern. If you type in a word, and then, repeat the same word minus the last letter, you'll find the the word highlights (minus) the last letter. (so for example if you type the words: "directory director" the word directory will have the letters 'director' highlighted.) Hope that helps Another thing is, that if you search with enough words, somethimes the displaying of the header of the message gets garbeld up. Hope that all makes sense.
it is still present in the latest versions of evolution/html on fc3 final. Any news on this?
The bug is still present in evolution 2.0.4 for FC3. In addition to comment #6 : it doesn't make a difference if you search for: "directory director" or "director directory". In both cases the word directory will have the letters director highlighted.
Just to add a "me too" to this bug report. I see *exactly* the described behaviour. This is on FC3 with evo 2.0.2. I'll report back when evo 2.0.4 is available from updates-released.
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Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. It has remained in NEEDINFO status for quite a long period of time, asking for confirmation on a more recent (still fully supported) version of Fedora Core. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.