Preferences dialog missing in Gedit

[Cerin]

The Edit->Preferences dialog is no longer accessible by default.

I managed to re-enable it following the hack outlined at http://askubuntu.com/questions/375049/where-are-gedits-preferences by running:

    gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides '@a{sv} {"Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu": <int32 0>}'

However, by default, Gedit no longer seems to expose its preferences dialog, which makes Gedit far less convenient to use. Please re-enable this feature by default.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-65.106-generic 3.13.11-ckt26
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-65-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 30 22:28:41 2015
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-04-19 (194 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What's the output of the command "dpkg -l | grep indicator-appmenu"?

[Cerin (chrisspen)]

ii indicator-appmenu 13.01.0+14.04.20140404-0ubuntu1 amd64 Indicator for application menus.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I'm not sure to understand. Do you get no menu or is that just that item working? If the menu was buggy for everyone we would have feedback about that before now so it must be a local issue. Does it work fine in a guest session?

[Cerin (chrisspen)]

Under the "Edit" menu item, there was no "Preferences" item.

I think this is my misunderstanding over the new Gnome 3 UI layout. I still think it's terribly unintuitive, but it seems only the "Preferences" item has been moved to the "top menu", which I thought was just the name of the program and not a separate menu. All other menus appear to still be in the normal Gedit menu bar.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Unsure what you are describing, I just downloaded a 14.04.3 iso and booted in a vm and took a screenshot showing the menu, seems the item is there ... do you have any specific in your configuration? does it work in a guest session?

[Cerin (chrisspen)]

Please read the askubuntu link I posted. I'm using gnome-shell. Many people are having this issue.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Oh, ok, that's a gnome-shell issue then...

[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 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 being used, 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.]