Bug 147691

Summary:	Backspacing over your text in Kopete resets the colors to black on white
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Amy Brodzik <amyrose1024>
Component:	Chat Window	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	msoos, phlogi1
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Amy Brodzik 2007-07-09 09:23:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

When I backspace to erase the message I'm typing, sometimes my font color changes back to black on white.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start typing something.
2. Backspace over the whole thing by holding down the backspace key until your text area is empty.
3. Start typing some more.
4. Backspace again.

If you keep repeating this process, you'll see the bug eventually. It normally only takes 1 or 2 cycles of this to trigger the bug.

Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2007-09-26 06:06:11 UTC

This is on my list of things to fix for KDE 4.

Comment 2 gabriele monfardini 2007-10-05 11:33:55 UTC

Sometimes the color changes to black in the textarea even if I don't use backspace. Eventually some message later it reverts back to my color.
Usually the other properties of the text are still correct, in my case the text is still bold for example.

In the chat window the colors and the other properties are always correct.

Comment 3 Michael 2008-07-20 13:47:57 UTC

with kopete svn trunk r835161 i can second that bug.

When you set the font and color, you can type in that selected font, but if you delete everything you entered, the colors and fonts are the default again.

Comment 4 Máté Soós 2008-09-14 19:51:09 UTC

I am experiencing similar things, but I have a funny color scheme: bold white text on lilac. So, things are somewhat different, and quite interesting:

1) I start with bold black text on lilac
2) then one backspace: white non-bold text on lilac
3) again backspace: white bold text on lilac

Interesting!

PS: MOST applications do not deal correctly with default white text :( Shame, really.

Comment 5 Cyrill Helg 2008-09-29 16:43:20 UTC

I created a patch for this and other related problems: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168994

Comment 6 Roman Jarosz 2008-12-25 14:43:37 UTC

Fixed in trunk (KDE 4.2)