Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 regressions

[Emblem Parade]

Actually. the SMPlayer crashes happen on X11, too, though less frequently.
If I click "next track" or sometimes just switching from fullscreen to
windowed, the Shell crashes. (Unlike in Wayland, the Shell restarts again
with all applications still open.)

More issues:

3. Changing the default app for Video Player in setting seems to have no
effect. (I switched from SMPlayer to VLC, but SMPlayer is still being used.)

4. In Nautilus it is impossible to change the default app to open a file. I
click on Properties, then Open With, and see a lit of all applications. But
even if I mark VLC and click "Set Default", it jumps back to SMPlayer.

5. The right-click menu for files in Nautilus shows the "Compress..."
option twice. Each option opens a slightly different dialog.



On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Emblem Parade <emblemparade at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Before, I was using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 upgraded to GNOME 3.20 via the PPAs.
>
> The following things worked fine before, but are broken now:
>
> 1. SMPlayer/mpv crashes the entire Shell in Wayland when playing a video.
> It doesn't matter which output driver I use. Interestingly enough, mpv
> works find standalone! Because I can't live without SMPlayer (ha!) my
> workaround is to use the X11 session. I can understand view errors, but why
> does the Shell crash?
>
> 2. Eclipse IDE cannot handle Hi-DPI properly, lots of bugs with font
> sizes. (Worked fine in 16.04.) My workaround for now is to set Eclipse to
> use GTK+2 (SWT_GTK3=0). I imagine there is something in the new version of
> GTK that ships with Ubuntu that prevents Eclipse from reading scaling
> values. Could it be an Ubuntu GNOME configuration issue?
>
> Otherwise, font rendering is *very* different from Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.
> It's not necessarily bad, just ... different. Just letting you know in case
> this wasn't intentional.
>