Contact Lookup applet doesn't take focus

[Manuel Teira]

When the search area is clicked in the Contact Lookup Applet, it doesn't take
focus, so you're not able to write anything to look for. This doesn't happens
all the time, normally after some time using the desktop.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you're using metacity ? which focus mode are you using ?

[Manuel Teira (manuel-teira)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> you're using metacity ? which focus mode are you using ?

Yes. I'm using metacity. And focus follow mouse. Anyway, I was trying to click
on the input area of the applet without luck.

[Ross Burton (ross)]

Is the text entry widget enabled? If it is an active widget (normally a white
background) then this looks like a metacity/panel bug, if it is disabled (light
grey background normally) then the applet has lost its connection to
evolution-data-server.

[Manuel Teira (manuel-teira)]

It was not enabled. As far as i remember, it was grey. Now, I'm not able to
reproduce it.

[Manuel Teira (manuel-teira)]

It gets grey everytime gnome starts. Then, if you kill the applet and restart it
again, it works fine. The problem arrises everytime I start gnome.

[Vincent Untz (vuntz)]

Created an attachment (id=337)
Proposed patch

AFAICT, at no moment during the applet start the applet opens an address book.
It does so only when the source gconf key is changed...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks Vincent

 contact-lookup-applet (0.8-1ubuntu1) warty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/01_focus.patch:
     - patch by Vincent Untz <email address hidden> to fix the focus problem
       on the session startup (Warty: #1938).

(oups, just noticed that I've used the wrong bug number in the changelog)

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

The bug is back in hoary: contact-lookup-applet 0.9-1ubuntu2

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> The bug is back in hoary: contact-lookup-applet 0.9-1ubuntu2

are you sure that's this bug ? contact-lookup-applet need to be adapted to build
the new evolution-data-server in hoary, it should not work at all ...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no reply in one month, bug closed. Feel free to reopen with details if that
happens again.

[Olafur Arason (olafura)]

This is still a problem with 0.10-1-ubuntu4

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

same question as in the previous comment. Is that greyed ? What focus mode are
you using ?

[Phil Housley (undeconstructed)]

Latest everything; sloppy focus in metacity: Actually works fine, but the only
way to focus it is with a ctrl-alt-tab to the panel. If that works, then typing
in it will work, and the matches appear fine.

You can actually cut/paste to it with just the mouse, but as it isn't focused it
won't search.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

so that's a different issue of this bug, please open a new one.