Re: Lost field text

On 29/10-2009 01:41 [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> The link you sent after a few hops through other links, bug reports on
>  various sites etc finally led me to
>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188533.
> 
> I found the openSUSE build service entry for scim-bridge by hujq and
>  installed to no effect.  I checked my package listing and there was also
>  scim-bridge-gtk (32 bit as well) and scim-bridge-qt.
> 
> scim-bridge-gtk didn't help either, but scim-bridge-qt fixed the problem.
> 
> So a big thank you.

Glad to be able to help. Must admit that I didn't read the hole thread.

BTW: remember not to top-post ;-)

> Best regards,
> 
> David.
> 
> > On 29/10-2009 00:30 [email protected] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > whenever I open a KDE application's form, such as editing a contact in
> > >  KAddressBook, the field that the cursor is on gets emptied just as the
> > >  window opens.  For KAddressBook this means that the contact's name
> > >  disappears.  It took a while to notice that this was happening.  I
> > >  discovered the cause when I found that a number of my contacts (all
> > > the ones that I had edited recently) were missing their names.
> > >
> > > Luckily, I found that when you open the form if you press CTRL-Z then
> > > you get the text back.
> > >
> > > Other places that I have noticed this behavior are:
> > > when changing the name of a KNote
> > > when renaming a file in konqueror
> > > when changing the font of some text in KMail's composer (the
> > > highlighted text all disappears) and others
> > > There are a number of KDE applications that don't seem to suffer this.
> > >  These include: KOrganiser - I can edit an appointment without losing
> > > the text
> > > ToDos
> > > Journal
> > > and others
> > >
> > > Is there anything I can do to prevent this most annoying behavior?
> > >
> > > I'm running openSUSE 11.1 which uses KDE 4.1.3.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > David.
> >
> > I've read about a behavior like the one you describe and tried to google
> > for it, but I only found this thread:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29396.html
> > It slightly reassembles it.
> 

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  Thomas Olsen