Lost field text

[djmills]

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Hi,

whenever I open a KDE application's form, such as editing a contact in KAddressBook, the field that the cursor is on gets emptied just as the window opens. For KAddressBook this means that the contact's name disappears. It took a while to notice that this was happening. I discovered the cause when I found that a number of my contacts (all the ones that I had edited recently) were missing their names.

Luckily, I found that when you open the form if you press CTRL-Z then you get the text back.

Other places that I have noticed this behavior are:

• when changing the name of a KNote
• when renaming a file in konqueror
• when changing the font of some text in KMail's composer (the highlighted text all disappears)
• and others

There are a number of KDE applications that don't seem to suffer this. These include:

• KOrganiser - I can edit an appointment without losing the text
• ToDos
• Journal
• and others

Is there anything I can do to prevent this most annoying behavior?

I'm running openSUSE 11.1 which uses KDE 4.1.3.

Best regards,

David.

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On 29/10-2009 00:30 djmills@... wrote:

> Hi,
>
> whenever I open a KDE application's form, such as editing a contact in
>  KAddressBook, the field that the cursor is on gets emptied just as the
>  window opens.  For KAddressBook this means that the contact's name
>  disappears.  It took a while to notice that this was happening.  I
>  discovered the cause when I found that a number of my contacts (all the
>  ones that I had edited recently) were missing their names.
>
> Luckily, I found that when you open the form if you press CTRL-Z then you
>  get the text back.
>
> Other places that I have noticed this behavior are:
> when changing the name of a KNote
> when renaming a file in konqueror
> when changing the font of some text in KMail's composer (the highlighted
>  text all disappears) and others
> There are a number of KDE applications that don't seem to suffer this.
>  These include: KOrganiser - I can edit an appointment without losing the
>  text
> ToDos
> Journal
> and others
>
> Is there anything I can do to prevent this most annoying behavior?
>
> I'm running openSUSE 11.1 which uses KDE 4.1.3.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David.
>

I've read about a behavior like the one you describe and tried to google for
it, but I only found this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kde@.../msg29396.html
It slightly reassembles it.

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[djmills]

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Hi Thomas,

The link you sent after a few hops through other links, bug reports on various sites etc finally led me to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188533.

I found the openSUSE build service entry for scim-bridge by hujq and installed to no effect. I checked my package listing and there was also scim-bridge-gtk (32 bit as well) and scim-bridge-qt.

scim-bridge-gtk didn't help either, but scim-bridge-qt fixed the problem.

So a big thank you.

Best regards,

David.

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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:50:56 Thomas Olsen wrote:

> On 29/10-2009 00:30 djmills@... wrote:

> > Hi,

> >

> > whenever I open a KDE application's form, such as editing a contact in

> > KAddressBook, the field that the cursor is on gets emptied just as the

> > window opens. For KAddressBook this means that the contact's name

> > disappears. It took a while to notice that this was happening. I

> > discovered the cause when I found that a number of my contacts (all the

> > ones that I had edited recently) were missing their names.

> >

> > Luckily, I found that when you open the form if you press CTRL-Z then you

> > get the text back.

> >

> > Other places that I have noticed this behavior are:

> > when changing the name of a KNote

> > when renaming a file in konqueror

> > when changing the font of some text in KMail's composer (the highlighted

> > text all disappears) and others

> > There are a number of KDE applications that don't seem to suffer this.

> > These include: KOrganiser - I can edit an appointment without losing the

> > text

> > ToDos

> > Journal

> > and others

> >

> > Is there anything I can do to prevent this most annoying behavior?

> >

> > I'm running openSUSE 11.1 which uses KDE 4.1.3.

> >

> > Best regards,

> >

> > David.

> >

>

> I've read about a behavior like the one you describe and tried to google for

> it, but I only found this thread:

> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kde@.../msg29396.html

> It slightly reassembles it.

>

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On 29/10-2009 01:41 djmills@... wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> The link you sent after a few hops through other links, bug reports on
>  various sites etc finally led me to
>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188533.
>
> I found the openSUSE build service entry for scim-bridge by hujq and
>  installed to no effect.  I checked my package listing and there was also
>  scim-bridge-gtk (32 bit as well) and scim-bridge-qt.
>
> scim-bridge-gtk didn't help either, but scim-bridge-qt fixed the problem.
>
> So a big thank you.

Glad to be able to help. Must admit that I didn't read the hole thread.

BTW: remember not to top-post ;-)

> Best regards,
>
> David.
>
> > On 29/10-2009 00:30 djmills@... wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > whenever I open a KDE application's form, such as editing a contact in
> > >  KAddressBook, the field that the cursor is on gets emptied just as the
> > >  window opens.  For KAddressBook this means that the contact's name
> > >  disappears.  It took a while to notice that this was happening.  I
> > >  discovered the cause when I found that a number of my contacts (all
> > > the ones that I had edited recently) were missing their names.
> > >
> > > Luckily, I found that when you open the form if you press CTRL-Z then
> > > you get the text back.
> > >
> > > Other places that I have noticed this behavior are:
> > > when changing the name of a KNote
> > > when renaming a file in konqueror
> > > when changing the font of some text in KMail's composer (the
> > > highlighted text all disappears) and others
> > > There are a number of KDE applications that don't seem to suffer this.
> > >  These include: KOrganiser - I can edit an appointment without losing
> > > the text
> > > ToDos
> > > Journal
> > > and others
> > >
> > > Is there anything I can do to prevent this most annoying behavior?
> > >
> > > I'm running openSUSE 11.1 which uses KDE 4.1.3.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > David.
> >
> > I've read about a behavior like the one you describe and tried to google
> > for it, but I only found this thread:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kde@.../msg29396.html
> > It slightly reassembles it.
>

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