When viewing messages in the message window of Evolution 2.2.3 using the arrow keys sometimes results in undesirable behavior. Example: Giving focus to the message window at the top of the message and pressing down arrow to scroll down scrolls the message to the very bottom. When this occurs pushing the up arrow has limited effect because the message window snaps to the bottom of the message again. Usually when this happens there is a large blinking cursor in the message window (which should be read-only and therefore not have a cursor.) Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. View a message in Evolution that is to long to display entire message in message window without scrolling. 2. Give focus to message window. 3. Press the down arrow key. Actual Results: Message window jumps to the bottom of the message, skipping parts of the message between the beginning and the end (of the message) Expected Results: The message window should have scrolled down one line at a time (like an ordinary multi-line textbox.) If relevant, when this malfunction occurs I usually have the following windows open: nautilus, evolution (obviously) and gnome-terminal, but this will occur when I have open only evolution.
I have this problem too - and infact, Evolution's handling of tables in HTML email seems to have become totally broken too :( (Has the component that evolution uses to render its output been updated, and evolution hasn't yet been updated to match? Is this related to the latest Gnome builds which are still masked for testing?) I find that cursor keys are broken when view messages in their own window: Initially a cursor which is the same height as the entire message flashes at the very left-hand edge of the message window, in the grey border. Pressing any cursor key now jumps to the very bottom of the message. Pressing any cursor key now causes the display to "bounce" around the bottom of the message, as if the display is trying to move upwards, but then gets reset back to the bottom. This happens in text or HTML modes. In text modes, you can then click anywhere on the body of the message and scrolling then works correctly. In HTML mail with tables, the dotted outlines of all the parent cells of the current cell/table are drawn. Trying to scroll up or down too quickly (e.g. evolution is relatively slow to draw these table outlines, and when you move with cursor keys they lag) causes evolution to crash :( In HTML email with tables, the only way to navigate currently is to use the mouse to scroll the scrollbar - cursor key navigation causes jumps, ugly table borders, and crashes.
please upgrade to evolution-2.6 ( just marked stable with GNOME 2.14 ) and re-open the bug if you can still reproduce it.
