Bug 838217 - evolution halts on font change or emoticons addition
Summary: evolution halts on font change or emoticons addition
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 829915
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 16
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-07 11:06 UTC by Hamada AbuDyia
Modified: 2012-07-09 06:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-07-09 06:56:42 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Hamada AbuDyia 2012-07-07 11:06:49 UTC
Description of problem:
evolution freezes when changing font details (color/size/type..etc) or when adding an emoticon. 
This occurs both in Gnome & KDE.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Evolution details:
Name        : evolution
Arch        : i686
Version     : 3.2.3
Release     : 3.fc16
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Fedora Details:
Fedora release 16 (Verne)
3.4.2-1.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu Jun 14 20:53:38 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open evolution
2. compose a new email message in HTML
3. change font color/size, or add an emoticon
  
Actual results:
evolution compose window freezes and becomes unresponsive

Expected results:
font details should change and compose should continue successfully

Additional info:
Tried this both in GNOMe & KDE, same result, tried to find a bug fix here in redhat but couldn't. 
can see the same issue reported as well in ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkhtml4.0/+bug/1003884

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2012-07-09 06:56:42 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. KDE has its own issues of this kind with standard combo-boxes, unfortunately. Under Gnome, it's fixed under bug #829915, thus I'm marking this as a duplicate of it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 829915 ***


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