[PLEASE SEE COMMENT #17 FOR A WORKAROUND.] > OK, you state it's a massive bug breaking desktops. Is this really true? Is it a security issue? Are you not able to use the desktop because of this bug?
It's fair enough to point out that it's (probably) not a security bug, but it IS pretty substantial bug in that it affects the entire gnome- shell GUI. > IMHO it's just a minor issue causing an annoying graphics design. I even would never have taken notice of the bug on my system if not a forum user of https://ubuntuusers.de/ asked for help there. How many users do experience this bug? Judging by the responses, a lot. It doesn't even seem limited to a specific graphics vendor. > OK, packages in universe repo should be free of critical bugs. Thank you, I'm glad you agree. > But as we all know, bugs are phenomena in software engineering, that can > occur due to human nature of programmers. Nobody's perfect thus no human work > is ever perfect. I'm very sure there are good reasons for the delay. Absolutely, and I don't mean to take away from the engineers working on it either. It's just embarrassing - Windows users would never have to deal with this, for instance. PopOS pushed a fix pretty quickly, so you can see that there are Ubuntu flavors who are actively managing themselves better than Canonical is managing the main distro. > My guess is simply there's not enough manpower in regard to the severity of > the mutter bug. Software engineering is a very time consuming task and good > code doesn't come from heaven. Yes, I'm understanding of this. It's just usually you can hold Ubuntu to a pretty high standard, and I echoed others' sentiments that this is taking longer than it could to fix. > If you are skilled enough to contribute code, why don't you help but instead > complain? I probably WILL dedicate time to this, but the bug has an assignee and I am not sure if I would be re-doing redundant work that is already done. This issue makes it pretty clear that we have some organizational issues as far as maintaining Ubuntu Desktop goes (incl. pre-release testing), and this 1999-style bug ticket system probably doesn't help these issues get addressed or triaged any better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892440 Title: Shell text is too small in mutter 3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mutter source package in Focal: Confirmed Bug description: See also bug 1892521. The package mutter version (3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) for Ubuntu 20.04 causes small text in GNOME Shell menu with NVIDIA cards. With a previous version (3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) all works fine. The problem is after update to the (3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2). --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-18 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 2020.08.15 LTS "Custom Focal Fossa" (20200815) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia Package: mutter 3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44 Tags: focal Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it # you can temporarily override this with # sudo service apport start force_start=1 enabled=0 mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2020-08-15T17:44:36 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1892440/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
