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gtkhtml3.14 package

formatting message flickers for very large messages

Bug #215677 reported by Andy Christianson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Fix Released
Low
gtkhtml3.14 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Hardy
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

For very large messages, my preview pane flickers rigorously while formatting message, and the message formatting takes a long time. An example message that causes this is 10,000 lines long, and 600K. It takes about 20-30 seconds with lots of formatting before I can properly view the message.

TESTCASE:
* download the gnome bugzilla example http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=110656&action=view
* dnd the message to an evolution box
* select the mail and look at the preview widget

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Andy Christianson (achristianson) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your report, any chance to submit one of those messages to the report in order to do tests with them? I've a few large messages and i haven't seen this behavior, thanks.

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Andy Christianson (achristianson) wrote :

I've attached the message. It's a debugging message generated from a website. I've replaced all letters in the file with *'s as it contained sensitive information. This should allow you to test it, though.

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

this bug has been confirmed upstream and a patch is available. Could you folks package it for ubuntu 8.04?

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Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the patch they attached is reverting a change, we should better wait a bit to see if they figure a proper fix rather

Changed in evolution:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

seems they actually included that patch in trunk

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

that's fixed upstream now, thanks.

Changed in evolution:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

sorry, does that mean that we will be able to get the fix in hardy-updates?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the new version should be uploaded next week and it'll have this change

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gtkhtml3.14:
importance: Low → Medium
importance: Low → Medium
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

Changed in gtkhtml3.14:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
description: updated
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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote : Re: [Bug 215677] Re: formatting message flickers for very large messages
  • unnamed Edit (386 bytes, text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1)

I did some very rough initial testing (will test "properly" tonight
hopefully) over the net through an NX connection, and it seems to have
reduced the behavior through an order of magnitude. Yay!

Now that ubuntu-security mail that was full of urls refreshes only twice,
not 10-20 times. I'll need to double check with my own eyes, not through a
remote desktop.

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote :

I applied all the updates today (all 103 of them, although there was no mention for this in the changelogs :) and found out that it actually *is* entirely fixed. No more flickering at all. It's a dream come true! Thank you! ^_^

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Copied hardy-proposed to intrepid.

Changed in gtkhtml3.14:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Copied to hardy-updates.

Changed in gtkhtml3.14:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Low
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