[Tickets #13176] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 ships ckeditor 4.3, breaks HTML editor

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/13176
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  Ticket             | 13176
  Updated By         | ola at clickworkorange.com
  Summary            | Ubuntu 14.04 ships ckeditor 4.3, breaks HTML editor
  Queue              | Horde Base
  Version            | 5.1.3
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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ola at clickworkorange.com (2014-05-11 03:05) wrote:

> Horde bundles it's own copy of ckeditor in the Horde_Editor package.  
> Not sure what Ubuntu's ckeditor package has to do with Horde.

I didn't know that - I had a "ckeditor" package installed on my  
server, which was started from clean recently and only has Horde,  
Apache, Postfix and Dovecot installed. Something must have pulled that  
in as a dependency, maybe because I chose to use the Ubuntu  
"php-horde-wemail" package to install Horde, rather than Pear. In any  
case, the symlink in horde/js/ pointing to ckeditor_basic.js in  
/usr/share/javascripts/ckeditor was broken in my installation as no  
such file existed. Trying to use the HTML compose in IMP jsut gave a  
me a "Loading...", and in the JS console I had an error about ckeditor  
being undefined - which led me to the solution: downgrading the  
installed version of ckeditor to the previous one fixed the problem  
and no other action was needed.

In the process I looked at the ckeditor website and saw that the  
current version has ditched the different "modes" in favour of letting  
the user customise ckeditor.js before downloading, a bit like how  
jQuery do it. This explains why the _basic file was missing in the  
installed version: it's no longer part of the ckeditor package.

It may be that no action is needed from Horde team, but I thought I'd  
report and let you be the judge. My apologies if I've wasted your time.