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Switching from "Plain Text" to "HTML" mode in Evolution composer keeps fixed width font

Bug #1518988 reported by Paul Smith on 2015-11-23

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Evolution	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #753702
evolution (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
Wily	Fix Released	Medium	Felipe Reyes

Bug Description

* Impact
the font used for writing html emails is sometime wrong and can't be changed

* Test case
- set the preference to html by default for new email
- start and email
- write some text
- switch to "plain text" and back to "html"

the text style should be the same before and after switching to plain text

* Regression potential
check that html emails have the correct style

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I'm using Evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3 in Ubuntu GNOME 15.10, latest packages.

My email starts by default in Plain Text mode. However sometimes I want to switch to "HTML" mode. When I do this, I get HTML-formatted email HOWEVER no matter what I do my font is still always fixed-width and never proportional. I can change the size, the slant, etc. but it's always fixed-width.

After discussing this on the Evolution mailing lists https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2015-November/msg00112.html it appears this is a bug that was fixed in 3.18. However, the fix looks simple to backport: please consider pulling this into Ubuntu 15.10 version of Evolution to fix this extremely annoying problem:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753702

Fixed with this commit:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=8aa930e0634b22afa38753816be824d7b1622140

See original description

Tags:

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2015-11-23

Changed in evolution:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2015-11-24

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Wily):
importance:	Undecided → Critical
importance:	Critical → Medium

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2015-11-24

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Fix Released
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	added: wily
tags:	added: ubuntu-gnome

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2015-11-25

description:

updated

Felipe Reyes (freyes) on 2015-11-25

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Wily):
assignee:	nobody → Felipe Reyes (freyes)
status:	New → In Progress

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Felipe Reyes (freyes) wrote on 2015-11-25:

lp1518988_wily.debdiff Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2015-11-25:

Thanks Felipe, uploaded

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Wily):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2015-11-26:

Ken should probably have commented but he already sponsored that one...

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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote on 2015-12-02: Please test proposed package

Hello Paul, or anyone else affected,

Accepted evolution into wily-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags:

added: verification-needed

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Paul Smith (psmith-gnu) wrote on 2015-12-02:

I tested evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 and the problem has been resolved. Thanks!

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-12-10:

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1

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evolution (3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1) wily-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/lp1518988.patch
    - Swap the rename_attribute calls to achieve the right behaviour,
    backport from upstream (LP: #1518988)

-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:42:27 -0500

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Wily):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-12-10: Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for evolution has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.