Comment 15 for bug 1019621

Hi everyone,
To be fair, the really bad, bad bugs like this one appeared after the
most recent gtk-3 (3.2?) release that introduced smooth scrolling by
default. You likely tested abiword before then. That change badly
affected abiword and we've battling it ever since. While current
abiword-2.9.3 is much better it still has a number of issues. Since
abiword-2.8.6 uses gtk-2 it is not affected.

Abiword-2.9.2 does have new features not implemented in 2.8.6 but it
sounds so bad it hard for me to think anybody has used it much.

Cheers

Martin

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Erick Brunzell <email address hidden> wrote:
> @ Lionel,
>
> Thanks for your comment, it's very helpful. I know a search would answer
> this question but I'm lazy ;^/
>
> Does Xubuntu plan on a 12.04.1 release?
>
> I apologize again for not adequately testing abiword during the Precise
> dev cycle.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019621
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> Title:
> Precise abiword version needs to be reverted to stable release prior
> to 12.04.1
>
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The issue cannot be captured by a screen recording program.
>
> VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
>
> It makes abiword almost useless for documents that have more than 1/2 of a page.
> I see giant gray squares, usually taking from 1/3 to 2/3 of document space.
> additonally - the black background looks extremely bad
>
> A video is attached.
> Recording laptop screen didn't do any good, I recorded and external display instead.
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