Evolution's HTML'insert link' tool

[berkshire779]

  Evolution 2.24.2 in Ubuntu 8.10 desktop
  Using Evolution's 'INSERT LINK' tool while composing a new HTML email message, will insert into the body of the message the following:

  http://

This will be inserted at the left side of the screen before any information is entered into the INSERT LINK dialog box. See attached screen shot. Entering the URL and the DESCRIPTION information and then closing the box will result in incorrect information being displayed for the link in the HTML message. Highlighting the misinformation, hitting BACKSPACE to delete it, and then re-activating INSERT LINK tool will result in it operating correctly with no information being displayed in the message until the the URL information is entered into the dialog box.

[Octavio (torn-acl)]

I was able to reproduce the bug also.

Ubuntu 8.10 Evolution 2.24.2

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

not here, which video card do you have and which driver are you using? are you running compiz ? does it happens without it?

[berkshire779 (richard-goodman65)]

  I am not using any special drivers or compiz. The computer is a Compaq EVO D51S with integrated video card. There are no special drivers loaded other than what Ubuntu and it's upgrades installs. When I referred to gibberish, it is not unrecognisable characters, but rather scrambled information. Please see attached screenshot.

[berkshire779 (richard-goodman65)]

Here is an additional screen shot after filling in the description portion of the dialog box.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Ok the description needs to be updated then, could you do it? also looks like a gtkhtml issue, will look upstream, thanks.

[berkshire779 (richard-goodman65)]

  The description has been changed. Thanks for your attention regarding this problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems to be similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562323 and fixed in jaunty