not possible to change font size

[Donovaly]

Open the attached SVG-file.
There is a text "TestTestTest" in Arial, size 24pt. Try to change the
second "Test" to size 19pt.

Usually you do this the following way:

- double-click into the text are and highlight the second
  "Test"
- go to the font size combobox in the toolbar and
  highlight there the "24"
- type "19" in the combobox to replace the "24" and press
  Enter

When you do this in Inkscape 0.45, the "Test" is overwritten instead of the
"24", so the active type area is left in the text area although the cursor
is in the combobox.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

I'm not sure, but I think this could be a result of the strange behavior people are describing at bug 168917. Does the string '19' actually appear in the text area, or does the selected text just disappear?

[uwestoehr (uwestoehr)]

> Does the string '19' actually appear in the text area, or does the selected text just disappear?

Now (with 0.45.1) the 19 appears correctly in the font size box but the whole text, also the not selected text parts are set to the font size 19.

It works when you don't type in a font size but used a predefined size in the combobox.

My attachment to the original bug report was deleted while the migration of the bug tracker to launchpad, so I attached it again.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

OK, so I'm going to mark your original bug fix-released. The latest problem you are describing appears to be a duplicate of bug 168397 (see my longish post there, especially the part that starts: "In addition, whatever text you have selected in the text box is deselected...")