Gedit displays shadow on top of edit window in fullscreen mode

[Matt Perry]

Binary package hint: gedit

When in fullscreen mode, the top line of the editor has a shadow on top of it making it difficult to read.

Steps to reproduce.
1. Open Gedit
2. Press F11 to go to fullscreen mode.

Actual result:
There is a shadow on the top line of text.

Expected result:
All text should be unobscured.

Reproducibility:
Always

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

that is the shadow effect of compiz. go to system>preferences>visual effects and turn off compiz. and see the shadow is gone or use compiz-config-settings-manager to just disable shadow effect.

[Matt Perry (mp)]

@om26er: This is not invalid. Suggesting that someone disable the default settings and features in their window manager to solve a bug in another program is not an acceptable solution. The fact remains that gedit is in fullscreen mode and a shadow is obscuring the top line of text. This happens in the default Ubuntu configuration as Ubuntu ships.

There is also precedent for fixing shadow problems. See this past papercut for reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/91786

I also believe that this is a valid papercut. When the user moves the pointer to the top of the screen, gedit will slide down a toolbar. This toolbar is retracted to above the top of the screen when the pointer is moved away. It's likely that the shadow can be removed if the toolbar is removed or made opaque once the toolbar is no longer visible.

[Matt Perry (mp)]

I believe this is a papercut because the toolbar could be removed after retraction, and added back before it slides into view.

I haven't looked at the source yet to see how easy it might be. I can look into it myself if another developer can offer mentoring to help review my patches.

[Vish (vish)]

@Matt Perry :
Have a look at how EOG does it , the toolbar's shadow is not present when toolbar is hidden , but the shadow is seen when the toolbar is displayed.

Once you submit the patch here , Subscribe the "main sponsors"
For more info regarding that > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess#Requesting%20Sponsorship , and will be reviewed.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

This issue was closed upstream on 2010/01/24 as "RESOLVED WONTFIX"
and refers to a very old version of gedit. After a review of
outstanding '100 Papercuts' issues I'm closing this as it is no
longer useful to leave this issue open.