GNOME glitches in F21 - Should they be reported and against which components?

[Florian Müllner]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Alexander Ploumistos
<alex.ploumistos at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few days ago I upgraded my main workstation to F21 and I've noticed a few
> annoying glitches, but I don't know if they are all worth reporting

Yes. Glitches may be minor bugs, but bugs nonetheless.


> 1. Window size and position:
> While some applications start with their last window size and placement,
> others do not; among them, most notable is firefox.

Saving and restoring window state is up to applications, so this would
be a feature request for applications that don't do this already.


> It usually starts maximized and then switches to something like a 7:2 ratio. When it is
> maximized and then unmaximized, it never returns to its original size.

Keeping track of the window size prior to maximization and restoring
it on unminimize is the window manager's job. However if no windows
besides Firefox are affected, I wouldn't exclude a bug there. Maybe
some rogue add-on?


> 2. Random rearrangement of icons on the desktop:
> I have organized my current projects and things to do in a dozen folders on
> my desktop, arranged in a grid. So far, this has happened to me three times:
> Upon logging in, some of them were taken out of the grid and randomly placed
> all over the desktop.

The desktop window is provided by nautilus.


> 3. Icon inconsistencies in the message tray:
> Some icons are 48x48, others 22x22 and others are not displayed at all. In
> this screenshot
> https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/gnome_message_tray.png
> there are actually 8 icons: a seahorse notification that a signature was
> good, solaar, dropbox (I don't know if our package is to blame or theirs),
> mail-notification, spideroak, gnote, nut monitor and easystroke.

This is a (known) gnome-shell issue. I'm afraid the notification
changes won't really affect this (other than: "it was wrong to pretend
those were notifications, let's decouple them again"), but reporting
it again is probably not too useful anyway.


> 4. Settings migration was inconsistent:
> While most of my settings from the previous version of GNOME were preserved
> after the upgrade to 3.14.2, others were not; e.g. the window action key was
> preserved, middle click on the titlebar to lower a window wasn't.

This is probably not a bug. The default of the
middle-click-on-titlebar setting was changed, so unless you explicitly
changed the setting before, it is expected that you get the new
default rather than preserving the default value from time of
installation.