- Some GTK3 apps don't start at all (evince does, gedit and charmap does not)
- Printing from GTK3 apps doesn't work.
- Ugly symbolic icons show up in my xfce try panel (ibus currently).
- Printer does no longer offer High quality colour/greyscale options.
- XFCE does not save my mouse settings. It gets reset every time I either switch to VT, log out or plug out and back in.
I've never had such serious problems before with any stable release of Fedora since Fedora Core 3 (which was my first). I'm seriously disappointed, especially by the fact that some devs just don't care at all (the first bug blocks a load of useful apps to start, it's nearly three months old, reproduced by more people and still no reaction from the devs). I was even forced to install Adobe Reader to be able to print PDFs. However, it stopped working as well now…
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I'm very puzzled about this Fedora version...what's happened? Too concentrated about Gnome 3 integration?
Use KDE, good that you have not only GNOME - easily!
ive been able to print via evince reliably on my system. Any chance you could make a pdf available for me that does not work for you that I can try next week just to confirm?
-jef
@Jef Spaleta: It's not problem of the PDF, it crashes at the very moment it tries to open print dialogue and despite abrt thinking it's a different bug, I think the cause might actually be the same for which I cannot run gedit, gucharmap, etc. (I noticed all crash at cairo_pattern_get_type).
hmm... im definitely not seeing that. Are you running with updates testing enabled? Is this 32 bit or 64 bit?
-jef
@Jef Spaleta: 32 bit, updates-testing disabled, XFCE, running since around F15 beta, maybe slightly sooner. As long as I remember I haven't been able to run gedit on F15 but printing from evince used to work. I've only recently managed to get abrt working (selinux related issues) so I haven't filled these bugs sooner.
@Jef Spaleta: Thanks to you I've been able to get deeper – it seems the GTK3 theme I use (an oldish copy of Adwaitha) to supplement the GTK2 one is triggering a bug in Adwaitha gtk3 engine, I don't know where though, but at least I can print and use gucharmap and gedit again.
yeah... i would suggest since you started this system from a beta, that you perhaps do a fresh F15 install. I never trust the post-install bugs I see in my beta installs to be relevant.
And since Im talking best practices. Anytime I see something significant and oddball, I usually create a fresh user and test the same functionality under a fresh user to test to see if its system wide (and thus maybe something in the fedora packages) or a rogue config in my home directory.
If you need me to try to confirm something on my systems let me know. I'll install a specific theme or whatever you think is the root cause and try to confirm it for you.
-jef
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