Preferences option not present in Edit menu

[Alexander Bejarano]

I m running Ubuntu Gnome 64bit beta 2 in a VM. When running gedit... the menu edit does not include the option Preferences

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.40-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Mar 27 15:38:07 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-27 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthias Jordan (matthiasjordan)]

Okay, this is, of course, not a bug per se but one big fat sign that the GNOME "usability" people have really been messing things up recently. As it turns out, there are the usual menus in the gedit window ("File", "Edit", ...). BUT. Because Apple II only had a screen size of 280×192, clearly in 2014 you have to have menus in the GNOME Shell top bar to save screen estate. On a twin 1920x1200 display setup. And to totally confuse users, some menu items, that used to be in the fricking Edit menu for like ages, have to move to that GNOME Shell top bar application menu. Presumably to justify its existence. So, yes, the item is still there - it just moved to another entirely different menu. I guess we all have to drink a bit more of that OS X Koolaid to get just how awesome it is that the menu for application Y on screen 1 is in the Shell title bar on screen 3 mere 80 centimeters away.

[Cavsfan (cavsfan)]

I have installed wiley and in a gnome flashback (with compiz) session there is no option for preferences under the edit tab.
Therefore there is no option to not wrap lines, show line numbers, etc.

[Cavsfan (cavsfan)]

The solution in Wiley was to set
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
to {"Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu":<0>}

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.
Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-standard-support on April 25, 2019.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s), and the desktop environment that you are using, otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]