Troy Dawson wrote:
> Frank, Schluenzen wrote:
>> Hi Stephan,
>>
>>>
>>> since the update to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3, we observe problems 
>>> with positioning the cursor in text input boxes, like the one for the 
>>> URL, the search engine, and also widgets embeeded in web pages: 
>>> Neither the mouse nor the cursor keys can be used to position the 
>>> cursor anywhere except at the very beginning or the very end of the 
>>> string.
>>>
>>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.slc3 has the same problem.
>>>
>>> Could someone confirm that they're seeing this as well? Any ideas how 
>>> to work around this?
>>>
>>
>> yup, I see the same problem. Actually, it's still possible to move around
>> within the text boxes with mouse and/or cursor - just the pointer (|) 
>> doesn't
>> update the position (which is just as bad) ...
>>
>> The firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position-more.patch apparently doesn't 
>> work properly under SL3 (see PS:). After removing the patch from 
>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3's spec and rebuilding the rpm everything 
>> seems to work fine .... at least the pointer positions correctly 
>> within the text boxes...
>>
>> I guess there is a good chance that similar patches make their way 
>> into thunderbird as well !?
>>
>> Ciao, Frank.
>>
>> PS: After fiddling a bit with the code: the patch introduces 
>> inRendContext->GetRangeWidth to deduce the (pixel) length of a 
>> substring within a text-field which is then used to calculate the 
>> actual position of the pointer within the text field. As it turns out, 
>> the function always returns the length of the complete string rather 
>> than that of the substring (whyever) - so that the pointer appears to 
>> get stuck at the end (or start) of the string. well, didn't try to dig 
>> any further ....
> 
> Hi Frank,
> I *thought* we actually were disabling all pango stuff when we changed 
> "enable-pango" to "disable-pango".  But it looks like their patch 
> doesn't honor that setting enough.
> 
> Troy

I'm debating.  Should I fix this, or use this as motivation for people to stop 
using firefox and thunderbird on SL3 and move to seamonkey.
SL 309 does *not* have firefox or thunderbird.  At some point, people are going 
to have to transition off firefox and thunderbird to seamonkey is they are 
going to stay on SL 3.
Troy

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