severity 850986 important thanks Lowering down to important. Please see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
Regards Carsten On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Package: icedove > Version: 1:45.4.0-1 > Severity: grave > > Dear maintainers, > > I have that spurious proble that very often, when I open a new compose > window (with ^N or by clicking on one of the reply-to buttons), the > keyboard focus stays in the main window. I start typing, which can > have nasty effects since the main indow recieves the events, such as, > for instance: > - deleting emails; > - ignoring conversations. > > It is not immediate to get the focus to the compose winodw I am > interested in. Clicling in this window does not help, even after > having clicked in the main icedove window or in another window from an > unrelated application. > > I have found two things that each help recover focus (no need to do > both, each one is sufficient on its own): > > 1- closing the main window; > > 2- opening yet another compose window: this new window then has focus > and I can from that point on get the focus in the window I like, > including the compose window that initially did not get focus. > > This is not only anoying but also can cause data loss as I can end up > deleting messages inadvertently. Forunately I have never actually > purged a directory when that happened, but I consider myself lucky. > > I am running GNOME 3 from testing, this bug has been there for a while > including when I was running cinnamon on jessie. It feels like it's > happening more often (almost, but not quite, always). > > Kind regads, Thibaut.
