[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 Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892440

Title:
  Shell text is too small in mutter 3.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1892440/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to