Problem is pretty simple. gaim version 0.61 (unstable/testing package) doesn't display the HTML formatting anymore. Basically, if I send or receive a chunk of text that is italicized or bolded, it doesn't actually show up that way in the conversation window. It just appears as normal font. Meanwhile, the guy on the other side sees italicized or bolded font. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gaim (from the 0.61 ebuild) 2. Open up an IM with anyone, (you can just send yourself the IM if you wish). 3. Type something in the conversation window. Select one of the words and hit the "italics" button, or the "bold" button. Or heck, you can just type something like <i>this</i>. Or hit Ctrl-i. Actual Results: The font stays the same when you hit enter-- as in, your formatting does not show up. If you formatted a word to be italicized, the italics don't show up, blah blah. I think you get the idea. Expected Results: Should have displayed italicized or bolded text. This was not broken in the .5x series of gaim. Probably need to pass the problem on upstream to the gaim guys.
this works fine for me...
is this a problem with the fonts that you're using for gnome?
Ok, I tried Tools->Preferences Clicked "Message Text", and checked the "Ignore font faces" option. Surprisingly, this actually got bold/italicized HTML formatting working for me again. As in, when it's on, it works. Hrmm...
Have you tested on a more recent gaim? I just added 0.64 to portage today, if it is still bork, I'll ask the gaim guys about it. --B
Well just got e-mailed that it still happens in 0.64 (posting responses here is better) I haven't heard about this from anyone else, but I'll keep the bug open until we find a fix for your particular issue...
Is this still happening? FYI gaim-0.66-r2 is out in the field. Although don't see how this is a gentoo thing as much as it is a gaim thing.
lostlogic can we close this out? This is a bug on an old version. Arthur can you please reply to let us know if this is still a problem. I have no problem closing this otherwise.
Per conversation with lostlogic, resolving invalid.
