Re: wierd font selct dialog actions

Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:16:58 -0500

At 09:53 AM 10/18/99 -0500, Damon M. Conway wrote:
>hi-
>i just compiled abiword-0.7.5 on my SuSE 6.0 Linux system. i typed make and
>make install. it compiled with lots of warnings and such, but finished and
>installed. now, whenever i end a word boundary (ie. hit spacebar, tab,
return,
>etc.) the font dialog will come down for me to select the option i changed
>last (font or point size). at this point i cannot do anything until i select
>an option. this happens for every word i type. this only happens once i
>make a change to the font using the dropdown menus in the toolbar. if i use
>the font dialog from the format menu, everything works as expected. i didn't
>see a bug for this in the bug tracker. is this a know issue with a
>fix/workaround, or a new issue/bug that i need to report? i can give more
>info if needed.

This is bug #522, http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=522.

We have no idea what causes this bug to occur, but you are about the 8th
person to report it. This seems to happen on practically every type of
system and window manager. What we really need is a clue as to why this
bug is occurring in the first place.

Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist

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