gEdit 3.18.3 in Xenial 16.04 Print Menu capabilities are broken

Bug #1587090 reported by Pascal Mons
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

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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Pascal Mons (anton+) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote :

The problem isn't reinventing the wheel, but reinventing everything all together without testing anything.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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