Evolution and Shift key

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Mike Chambers <mike at mtchambers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 00:50 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 23:15 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>> > Fresh install and updated Fedora 23 as of today.
>> >
>> > While using evolution, and the preview screen, where the emails are
>> > on
>> > top, and the preview window is on the bottom where you read the
>> > email,
>> > it seems if you click on an email, hold the shift key, you should
>> > be
>> > able to arrow down the list highlighting until you stop.  But this
>> > doesn't seem to work.  And yes the focus is on the email list when
>> > trying it.
>> >
>> > I can go into anything else on my desktop, example opening my nemo
>> > window folder to a directory, highlighting a file, hold shift,
>> > arrow
>> > down and it highlights everything until I stop.  This is Cinnamon
>> > workstation, and the shift key works as expected.
>>
>> Well, don't know what happened or what I did, but it seems to work
>> now
>> haha.
>
> So, it's not fixed after all.  I had to do a reboot, and once opening
> evolution, and trying it, it don't work.

Shift+select with either pointer or key navigation in evolution in
recent F-23 seems random, pre 3.18 GA it use to work, but since the
3.18.x (or there abouts) something has changed to make it
intermittent. Not sure if the cause is evo or some other component
change.

Peter