Ubuntu
gwibber package

Gwibber jumps to new messages

Bug #523814 reported by John Vivirito on 2010-02-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #487064: Message pane repaints frequently and resets the scroll status, losing reading position. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gwibber	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	gwibber (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gwibber

Gwibber is jumping to new messages while you are reading a list of them.
This should not happen when user is scrolling down to read posted messages. It causes loss of place and a lot of extra scrolling.

gnomefreak@Development:~$ policy gwibber
gwibber:
  Installed: 2.29.91~bzr609-0ubuntu2~daily1
  Candidate: 2.29.91~bzr609-0ubuntu2~daily1
  Version table:
*** 2.29.91~bzr609-0ubuntu2~daily1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.29.90-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages

gnomefreak@Development:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
gnomefreak@Development:~$ uname -a
Linux Development 2.6.32-13-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 10 21:24:20 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Revision history for this message

Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-02-18:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 487064, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.