Package: xchat Version: 2.4.1-0.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch XChat 2.4.x has a bug that prevents input method activation after switching tabs. The user has to minimize the window and restore it again to use input method (to input Chinese, for example) as a workaround, and this is very annoying.
The bug is submitted upstream (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1168239&group_id=239&atid=100239), and after discussion a two-line patch is accepted by upstream. The patch is very simple, it uses GTK+ function to set gtkentry properties instead of setting the variable directly. It can be seen at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xchat/xchat2/src/fe-gtk/maingui.c?r1=1.113&r2=1.114 in upstream CVS. I am also attaching the patch. This is a regression from xchat 2.0 (therefore regression from warty), it makes xchat quite unusable for Chinese users. The patch is simple and already accepted upstream. It would be nice to have it in sarge (but now looking at the NMU history, I am not that optimistic). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages xchat depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libperl5.8 5.8.4-8 Shared Perl library ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li ii python2.3 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii tcl8.4 8.4.9-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8 ii xchat-common 2.4.1-0.1 Common files for X-Chat ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information
=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/xchat/xchat2/src/fe-gtk/maingui.c,v retrieving revision 1.113 retrieving revision 1.114 diff -u -r1.113 -r1.114 --- xchat/xchat2/src/fe-gtk/maingui.c 2005/03/11 06:37:52 1.113 +++ xchat/xchat2/src/fe-gtk/maingui.c 2005/03/30 05:36:40 1.114 @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ /* dirty trick to avoid auto-selection */ GTK_ENTRY (sess->gui->input_box)->editable = 0; gtk_widget_grab_focus (sess->gui->input_box); - GTK_ENTRY (sess->gui->input_box)->editable = 1; + gtk_editable_set_editable (GTK_EDITABLE (sess->gui->input_box), TRUE); sess->server->front_session = sess; @@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ /* dirty trick to avoid auto-selection */ GTK_ENTRY (current_sess->gui->input_box)->editable = 0; gtk_widget_grab_focus (current_sess->gui->input_box); - GTK_ENTRY (current_sess->gui->input_box)->editable = 1; + gtk_editable_set_editable (GTK_EDITABLE (current_sess->gui->input_box), TRUE); } static void
