Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 54704
Jumping text in Balsa "To:" field
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:23:50 EDT
Description of Problem: In "Compose" of Balsa when writing recipient in "To:" field of a new message a typed text jumps right and left apparently depending on a number of characters typed. This may depend on a choice of fonts but it happens at least with -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 and -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-2 but not, for example, with -b&h-lucidux mono-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-15 If one will type spurious characters to force a text to jump left then these extras can be erased and the text will stay left. I did not observe anything like that in other entry fields (but, come to think of it, I did not try 'Cc:'). The same effect was also observed on another system where some other fonts were used (some courier, I think). BTW - a choice of a default font is pretty terrible (unreadable on most displays) and it is not really obvious how to change these.
I can't reproduce the font jumping in balsa-1.2.1-1, which will be in rawhide soon. It also has a somewhat better default font (of course, that's always in the eye of the beholder. :) )
Yes, indeed. An absence of wildly jumping strings seems to be a difference between balsa-1.1.7-5, as included in Enigma-RC2, and balsa-1.2.1-1. As for defaults fonts they seem to be now indeed only "tiny" instead of "unreadable". :-)