Evolution rendering bug ?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Feb 23 09:35:55 PST 2005


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Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
| ? ??, 23/02/2005 ? 02:14 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????:
|
|>On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:52 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
|>
|>>? ??, 22/02/2005 ? 00:07 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????:
|>>
|>>>On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:51 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
|>>>
|>>>>Hi Gnome
|>>>>
|>>>>After upgrade to recent evolution from marcus repository
|>>>>Rendering of some messages now incorrect (see attached screen-shot and
|>>>>messages).
|>>>>
|>>>>Same problem appears for attachment labels (see second screen-shot).
|>>>>
|>>>>I have following packages installed:
|>>>>evolution-2.1.5     An integrated mail, calendar and address book
distributed s
|>>>>evolution-data-server-1.1.5 The data backends for the Evolution
integrated mail/PIM sui
|>>>>evolution-webcal-2.1.91 Webcal(endar) handler for gnome
|>>>>gtkhtml3-3.5.6      Lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine
|>>>>
|>>>>Most probably this related to high DPI (124) of my notebook LCD, but
|>>>>valid dpi is defined as gnome dpi and I have no problems with other
|>>>>software.
|>>>>
|>>>>Any ideas ?
|>>>
|>>>These really aren't screenshots, just message dumps.  That said, I
|>>>tested Evo 2.1.5, and none of my messages look like this.  Usually, when
|>>>'=' get thrown into messages, something is trying to MIME encode certain
|>>>characters.
|>>
|>>Oops, looks like mail-list cut off screens-shots, second try directly.
|>>
|>>As I mention, this happens when message has HTML part inside (like in
|>>attached message), can you open attached message in evolution ?
|>
|>It looks okay to me given the formatting of the message (the user chose
|>10-point Arial as the font).  If I choose to increase the font size, it
|>increases in Evo.  The font is small, but not as small as what you're
|>seeing.
|
|
| So what I should to do ? Frankly speaking only freebsd mail-lists works
| ok, most of other mail is coming to me with html-part, so now it is very
| hard to use evolution for me.
|
| Can you advise where to dig ?
| Looks like html render does not use dpi when calculates how to display
| message with font size specified in html. I have tried to browse gconf
| data for gtkhtml - but without luck. What else I can try/check ?
|
| Also, note, I have no problem with compose. Only display some messages (
|
| Probably I should try to fail bug to gnome bugzilla ?

Yes.

Joe

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|>Joe
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