Troy Dawson wrote:
Frank, Schluenzen wrote:
Hi Stephan,
since the update to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3, we observe problems
with positioning the cursor in text input boxes, like the one for the
URL, the search engine, and also widgets embeeded in web pages:
Neither the mouse nor the cursor keys can be used to position the
cursor anywhere except at the very beginning or the very end of the
string.
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.slc3 has the same problem.
Could someone confirm that they're seeing this as well? Any ideas how
to work around this?
yup, I see the same problem. Actually, it's still possible to move around
within the text boxes with mouse and/or cursor - just the pointer (|)
doesn't
update the position (which is just as bad) ...
The firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position-more.patch apparently doesn't
work properly under SL3 (see PS:). After removing the patch from
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3's spec and rebuilding the rpm everything
seems to work fine .... at least the pointer positions correctly
within the text boxes...
I guess there is a good chance that similar patches make their way
into thunderbird as well !?
Ciao, Frank.
PS: After fiddling a bit with the code: the patch introduces
inRendContext->GetRangeWidth to deduce the (pixel) length of a
substring within a text-field which is then used to calculate the
actual position of the pointer within the text field. As it turns out,
the function always returns the length of the complete string rather
than that of the substring (whyever) - so that the pointer appears to
get stuck at the end (or start) of the string. well, didn't try to dig
any further ....
Hi Frank,
I *thought* we actually were disabling all pango stuff when we changed
"enable-pango" to "disable-pango". But it looks like their patch
doesn't honor that setting enough.
Troy
I'm debating. Should I fix this, or use this as motivation for people to stop
using firefox and thunderbird on SL3 and move to seamonkey.
SL 309 does *not* have firefox or thunderbird. At some point, people are going
to have to transition off firefox and thunderbird to seamonkey is they are
going to stay on SL 3.
Troy
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