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  • "Character found" response in Gnome Character Map

    From Jim Beard@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 24 15:03:55 2019

    Does anyone use the Gnome Character Map gucharmap?

    When I call up the Hebrew set of characters, and click on a character, it
    may provide at the lower left "Character found." rather than something
    such as "U+1D6A GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHI" expected.

    If I then click on other characters and click on original character
    again, it may again respond with "Character found" or it may provide the expected details on the character.

    Anyone else see the same thing?

    Mageia 7, updates current, gucharmap-12.0.1-1.mga7, gdm 3.32.0, gnome
    desktop.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 24 17:20:18 2019
    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:03:55 -0500, Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> wrote:

    Does anyone use the Gnome Character Map gucharmap?
    When I call up the Hebrew set of characters, and click on a character, it
    may provide at the lower left "Character found." rather than something
    such as "U+1D6A GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHI" expected.
    If I then click on other characters and click on original character
    again, it may again respond with "Character found" or it may provide the expected details on the character.
    Anyone else see the same thing?

    Just tried it. Working with the details shown as expected. Tried rapidly clicking
    through the characters, and found the same problem with it sometimes showing just
    "Character found". Inconsistent behavior, though usually working properly.

    Mageia 7, updates current, gucharmap-12.0.1-1.mga7, gdm 3.32.0, gnome desktop.

    Same, except using run level 3 and plasma.

    Experimenting some more, usually only the description is visible, but some times I
    can see the string "Character found" appear very briefly, then quickly replaced by
    the description. Occasionally the replacement seems to fail. No idea why. While
    a bug report should be opened at gnome.org, I expect it will be very low priority,
    and difficult to track down and fix.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 25 00:05:49 2019
    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:20:18 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:

    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:03:55 -0500, Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>
    wrote:

    Does anyone use the Gnome Character Map gucharmap?
    When I call up the Hebrew set of characters, and click on a character,
    it may provide at the lower left "Character found." rather than
    something such as "U+1D6A GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHI" expected.
    If I then click on other characters and click on original character
    again, it may again respond with "Character found" or it may provide
    the expected details on the character.
    Anyone else see the same thing?

    Just tried it. Working with the details shown as expected. Tried rapidly clicking through the characters, and found the same problem with it
    sometimes showing just "Character found". Inconsistent behavior, though usually working properly.

    Mageia 7, updates current, gucharmap-12.0.1-1.mga7, gdm 3.32.0, gnome
    desktop.

    Same, except using run level 3 and plasma.

    Experimenting some more, usually only the description is visible, but
    some times I can see the string "Character found" appear very briefly,
    then quickly replaced by the description. Occasionally the replacement
    seems to fail. No idea why. While a bug report should be opened at
    gnome.org, I expect it will be very low priority,
    and difficult to track down and fix.

    Gucharmap bugs wants a login and password with gnome, github. gitlab, or google. I neither have nor want one of those.

    Perhaps you or someone else would do the deed?

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    --
    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer-
    friendly.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.13 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 25 06:27:27 2019
    On 25/11/19 11:05 am, Jim Beard wrote:
    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:20:18 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:

    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:03:55 -0500, Jim Beard<jim.beard@verizon.net>
    wrote:

    Does anyone use the Gnome Character Map gucharmap?
    When I call up the Hebrew set of characters, and click on a character,
    it may provide at the lower left "Character found." rather than
    something such as "U+1D6A GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHI" expected.
    If I then click on other characters and click on original character
    again, it may again respond with "Character found" or it may provide
    the expected details on the character.
    Anyone else see the same thing?

    Just a thought: can you copy your character from what you see initially?
    If so, that would pull the priority of any bug report even lower.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 25 13:05:55 2019
    On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 01:27:27 -0500, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    Just a thought: can you copy your character from what you see initially?
    If so, that would pull the priority of any bug report even lower.

    Copying to the clipboard and then pasting into gedit is working.

    Very low priority indeed. :-)

    Regards, Dave Hodgins


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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 25 14:52:53 2019
    On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:27:27 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

    On 25/11/19 11:05 am, Jim Beard wrote:
    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:20:18 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:

    On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:03:55 -0500, Jim Beard<jim.beard@verizon.net>
    wrote:

    Does anyone use the Gnome Character Map gucharmap?
    When I call up the Hebrew set of characters, and click on a
    character,
    it may provide at the lower left "Character found." rather than
    something such as "U+1D6A GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHI" expected.
    If I then click on other characters and click on original character
    again, it may again respond with "Character found" or it may provide
    the expected details on the character.
    Anyone else see the same thing?

    Just a thought: can you copy your character from what you see initially?
    If so, that would pull the priority of any bug report even lower.

    If I get a "Character found." response and then double-click on the
    character, the selected character appears in the "Text to copy:" window
    under the matrix of characters, and can be copied from there.

    Gnome developers are somewhat fanatic about being aware of bugs even when
    they have never fixed them and don't intend to (witness the carry-forward
    of ancient bugs log closed without resolution in an upgrade to Git or
    Github or some such), but I have no address to e-mail the findings to and
    have no desire for an account/login I likely will never wish to use again.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    --
    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer-
    friendly.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.13 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)