Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 838217
evolution halts on font change or emoticons addition
Last modified: 2012-07-09 02:56:42 EDT
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 ------------ 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
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 ***