regression: unusable UI of gitg 3.x

[Stefan Tauner]

The upstream 3.x branch of gitg is an almost complete rewrite that changes the very nature of the program. For example, the new version packaged for Xenial completely lacks any visible keyboard shortcuts and has many other obstructions for my daily work flow that have been newly introduced - gitg became useless to me (even gitk and git-gui seem to be better(!)). It would be better to deprecate/remove gitg and add the 3.x-based versions of gitg as a new package to communicate this change.

I cannot dedicate enough time to maintain a fork on my own but I am more than willing to join anybody who want to cooperate on this...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

That's not going to happen. Ubuntu synchronizes with debian strech and sid. If you have problem with keyboard shortcut,please file bug at upstream. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gitg

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package gitg - 3.32.1-1

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gitg (3.32.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Build-Depend on libdazzle-1.0-dev
  * Build-Depend on debhelper-compat 12 and drop debian/compat
  * Build-Depend on dh-sequence-gir and dh-sequence-gnome
  * Drop obsolete Build-Depends on intltool
  * Bump minimum meson and libgit2-glib versions
  * Refresh desktop-add-RevisionControl.patch
  * Drop all other patches: applied in new release
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.4.0

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Sep 2019 10:40:24 -0400

[Stefan Tauner (stefanct)]

No, it isn't. More appropriately it should be tagged as won't fix.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Have you tried gitg 3.32.1? It will be available in Ubuntu 19.10 which will be released within a week.

There is a keyboard shortcuts dialog.

You can file individual issues at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gitg/issues

Please try to only file one specific concern per issue.