evolution allows deletion of default views

David Clayton:

Could you please document the specific steps necessary to reproduce this bug. I am not a regular Evolution user and I do not know enough about how to create custom views (or remove them) but I am happy to recreate the bug so I can confirm it for you. Once the bug is confirmed then we can send it upstream so a developer can look at it.

Thank you.

I am the OP in the Ubuntu Forums thread Mr. Clayton refers to. To reproduce:

Start Evolution and bring up the Calendar.

Go to menu: View / Current View / Define Views...

Click "New."

Decide which of the default views you're going to sacrifice for this test, and give your custom view a name which will follow that one alphabetically. Set the "Type of view" to whatever. Click "OK."

Highlight your new custom view in the list, and click "Delete."

Whichever default view was above the deleted view in the list is now highlighted.

Now we encounter the bug, which is that the "Delete" button is still active, when it should not be. Click "Delete" again, and you will delete the highlighted default view.

I THINK that repeatedly clicking "Delete" at this point will continue to delete default views, but I'm not going to test that!

I THINK that selecting one of the other default (non-deletable) views in the list will "turn off" the bug until you create another custom view.

The control icon which normally would bring up the deleted default view remains on the toolbar, but is now nonfunctional. You can, however, still bring up that view in a less convenient fashion via the View menu. Creating a new custom view with the missing default view's name does not restore the icon's function; nor does reinstalling Evolution through Synaptic. That is the extent of what I have been able to do.

Thanks!

Actually I take one thing back; deleted default views are NOT still available through the View menu. I created custom views to replace the ones that I deleted, and those are what I have on the View menu. They are accessible that way, but are not called up by the toolbar icons.

Joe:

Thank you. I followed your instructions and was able to delete a view that should not be deleted.

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604971

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.32.0-0ubuntu1

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evolution (2.32.0-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 2.32.0
    - Empty reply quotation for HTML messages (LP: #630566, #659513)
    - "Encrypt to self" by default on newly created mail (LP: #326979)
    - Backup settings uses unhelpful yes/no dialog (LP: #572985)
    - Can't drag email addresses to Contact List Editor (LP: #282530)
    - Contact List Editor calls wrong EDestination function (LP: #229187)
    - Allow normal, non-vFolder, Trash and Junk folder (LP: #13983, #64762)
      (LP: #135485, #280325, #365270)
    - Allow change of signature hash algorithm (LP: #381290, #381295, #635937)
    - Dialog for mark-all-read always mentions subfolders (LP: #608462)
    - Evolution allows deletion of default views (LP: #498040)
    - Add checks for event->comp_data != NULL (LP: #466415, #546952)
    - Properly free unused message infos periodically (LP: #507972)
    - Calendar compressed weekend print improvement (LP: #88926)
    - Attachment bar causes drawing issues in RTL locales (LP: #545459)
    - [PST] evolution crashed with SIGSEGV (LP: #471852)
    - Swap "Save" and "Save as Draft" accelerators in composer (LP: #424416)
    - Evolution hangs when formatting message - fixes part of it (LP: #175233)
      (LP: #327775)
    - Calendar Day view All Day events print improvements (LP: #88926)
    - Crash on a changed mail filter action removal (LP: #452921)
    - Do not block UI with publish-calendar messages (LP: #594289)
    - Duplicate mnemonic in meeting window (LP: #499418)
    - Hide variable used only with HAVE_LIBNOTIFY (LP: #594289)
  * debian/patches/02_fix_missing_include_for_composer.patch: refreshed
  * debian/patches/03_lpi.patch: refreshed
  * debian/patches/12_remove_not_recommended_for_top_posting.patch: updated.
    The "recommended" text is now a separate label, so removing that object
    entirely.
  * debian/patches/89_express.patch: dropped, applied upstream.
  * debian/patches/90_disable_deprecation_warning.patch: refreshed
  * debian/patches/91_add_u1_email_translations.patch: refreshed
  * debian/patches/91_git_additional_chinese_translations.patch: dropped
  * debian/patches/91_git_fix_e_shell_ref_counting.patch: dropped
  * debian/patches/91_git_fix_untranslatable_list_editor.patch: dropped
  * debian/patches/92_git_fix_proxy_ignore_hosts.patch: dropped
  * debian/patches/92_git_only_hide_signature_on_express.patch: dropped
  * debian/control: update Depends/Build-Depends of all e-d-s parts to 2.32
  * debian/control: libgdata was split out of e-d-s, so updating Build-Depends
    to use the external libgdata library.
  * debian/control: bump libgtkhtml Build-Depends to >= 1:3.31.90
  * debian/*.install: install plugins to /usr/lib/evolution/2.32, not 2.30
  * debian/rules: remove --disable-pilot-conduits, it's not a valid configure
    switch anymore
  * debian/evolution-dev.install: no longer install libeconduit.so
  * debian/control: update Build-Depends with new and updated requirements for
    2.32: adding libpango1.0-dev, libgail-dev, updating libglib2.0-dev,
    libgtk2.0-dev, gnome-icon-theme and libunique-dev
  *...