Public bug reported:
I just upgraded from Trusty 14.04 and had the surprise to see the newer
version of gEdit 3.18 with a broken Print Menu.
First, previously the print menu was accessible from gEdit window
control bar alongside the opened file folders. No more, the print menu
is only accessible from the global menu. The window control bar has 3
times the height from the previous version I used (3.10) and with less
accessible information, as Open, +, and Save are now on a bar of their
own. Why the GNOME guys at each new release feel like they need to re-
invent the wheel ? And occasionally broke previously working features
...
Then when trying to print some text pages I realized that my pages were
printed with excessive margins on all side. That was never the case
before either in Trusty or Precise.
I later tried to configure the margins ... Well there is no margins
configuration available to speak off. But the capability appears on the
Paper Size --> Manage Custom Sizes --> Paper Margin ... I should mention
here that I previously changed the Default Paper Size from U.S. Letter
to A4. Then opening the 'Manage Custom Size' I was expecting the A4
Paper Size listed in the pop-window field Paper Size, but still I got
the U.S. Letter paper size ...
gEdit will provide a name 'Custom Size 1' as the pop-up open. I changed
the margins from 0.25 inch to 0.1 and changed the default name to 'A4
Small Margin' and typing the inches size of A4 instead of the listed
inches size for U.S. Letter. However to no avail, as when closing the
pop-up window the name reverts back to 'Custom Size 1'.
Then using this setting to print a text page wouldn't change anything on
the printed margins ... Using the 'Margins from printer' --> in my case
KONICA-MINOLTA magicolor 1650 EN (which are set at 0.17 inches) wouldn't
change anything either.
The default paper size change (from U.S. Letter to A4) is not set until
you actually print a page ... And there is no option to change inches to
cm ...
When the GNOME team will stop breaking previously perfectly working
application ?
May be when I have time I will provide a scan of before / after update
to Xenial 16.04. I consider this a damaging regression. Previously we
had from the GNOME team a 'blurry' font bug in gEdit 3.10, however
hopefully someone (not part of the GNOME) provided a patch.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gedit 3.18.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 30 16:12:20 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-23 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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Title:
gEdit 3.18.3 in Xenial 16.04 Print Menu capabilities are broken
Status in gedit package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I just upgraded from Trusty 14.04 and had the surprise to see the
newer version of gEdit 3.18 with a broken Print Menu.
First, previously the print menu was accessible from gEdit window
control bar alongside the opened file folders. No more, the print menu
is only accessible from the global menu. The window control bar has 3
times the height from the previous version I used (3.10) and with less
accessible information, as Open, +, and Save are now on a bar of their
own. Why the GNOME guys at each new release feel like they need to re-
invent the wheel ? And occasionally broke previously working features
...
Then when trying to print some text pages I realized that my pages
were printed with excessive margins on all side. That was never the
case before either in Trusty or Precise.
I later tried to configure the margins ... Well there is no margins
configuration available to speak off. But the capability appears on
the Paper Size --> Manage Custom Sizes --> Paper Margin ... I should
mention here that I previously changed the Default Paper Size from
U.S. Letter to A4. Then opening the 'Manage Custom Size' I was
expecting the A4 Paper Size listed in the pop-window field Paper Size,
but still I got the U.S. Letter paper size ...
gEdit will provide a name 'Custom Size 1' as the pop-up open. I
changed the margins from 0.25 inch to 0.1 and changed the default name
to 'A4 Small Margin' and typing the inches size of A4 instead of the
listed inches size for U.S. Letter. However to no avail, as when
closing the pop-up window the name reverts back to 'Custom Size 1'.
Then using this setting to print a text page wouldn't change anything
on the printed margins ... Using the 'Margins from printer' --> in my
case KONICA-MINOLTA magicolor 1650 EN (which are set at 0.17 inches)
wouldn't change anything either.
The default paper size change (from U.S. Letter to A4) is not set
until you actually print a page ... And there is no option to change
inches to cm ...
When the GNOME team will stop breaking previously perfectly working
application ?
May be when I have time I will provide a scan of before / after update
to Xenial 16.04. I consider this a damaging regression. Previously we
had from the GNOME team a 'blurry' font bug in gEdit 3.10, however
hopefully someone (not part of the GNOME) provided a patch.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gedit 3.18.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 30 16:12:20 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-23 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160420.1)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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