[Debian-l10n-devel] Bug#883014: poedit: Problems to use keyboard in Poedit textboxes, with Debian stable and KDE Plasma desktop

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:08:47 +0100
Laura Arjona Reina <larjona at debian.org> wrote:

>Package: poedit
>Version: 1.8.11-3
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>   * What led up to the situation?
>
>I'm using Debian 9 stable and KDE Plasma desktop (not sure if this is
>related, but maybe it's just that I'm missing a package).
>
>   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>     ineffective)?
>
>I installed Poedit and tried to work with some PO files.
>
>   * What was the outcome of this action?
>
>I found out that I cannot properly use the keyboard for editing the
>translating texts, and also have some issues in other text boxes (e.g.
>in Edit > preferences, editing my name). It seems that I can add text,
>but cursors and backspace don't work. This makes editing a pain and
>the program almost un-usable :( I found out that if I press backspace,
>change focus to other window, and return to Poedit, the key worked.
>But pressing several times does not work, only one key at a time
>(changing focus and returning to poedit between keystroke and
>keystroke).
>
>
>   * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
>I invoked Poedit from the command line and was expecting some error
>message when having the issue, but it didn't show any message. I've
>tried to change the GTK themes in my desktop systemsettings (from
>Breeze to Adwaita) but didn't change anything. I've installed Poedit
>from testing in my stable machine and the problem persists. I'm a bit
>clueless in how to diagnose this. I've searched the internet and
>upstream issue tracker and couldn't find anything related.
>

I might have been able to reproduce this now - after installing ibus
and ibus-qt4 on my KDE installation the keyboard input started acting
rather strange, and quite similar to what you describe.

Could you please try to check if you have those packages installed, and
try to remove them, and reproduce the problem after that?

If that is the case I will probably simply reassign the problems to
ibus / ibus-qt4.

You can find some information on ibus, and how to determine if it is
running, closing it down and so forth on 

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6950/how-to-use-ibus-with-kde

/Andreas