Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 regressions

[Emblem Parade]

6. When GEdit is set to use the system font, it does so -- but does not
respect the "Scaling Factor" set in the Tweak Tool (worked fine in 16.04).

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:12 AM, Emblem Parade <emblemparade at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
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