[SRU] Chart properties window is unusable in Trusty

[Dennis Sheil]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahir).

As the screenshot attached shows, chart customization in Gnumeric has broken somewhat. In 13.10, I would click on a chart, go to customize, and then the options would be shown. If you see the screenshot, the very vertically small "Style" tab in 13.10 would fill the entire panel. Now that tab is very small, with a lot of blank space below it. So editing chart parameters has become very difficult.

This problem was not in Ubuntu 13.10 but cropped up when I upgraded. As the screenshot shows, the Style tab should extend farther down. We shouldn't just see the Outline and Fill headers, we should see style, type, color, fit and so forth.

It is also not just for that tab. Most of the tabs are broken. They worked on Ubuntu 13.10.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Morten Welinder (terra-gnome)]

This is caused by yet another gtk+ abi break.

[urchinstar47 (urchinstar47)]

Bug appears outside of unity, or any desktop environment

[David Jennings (mail-davidjennings)]

It would appear to be this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719681

which was fixed in goffice 0.10.10 which was released concurrently with gnumeric 1.12.10. See http://www.gnumeric.org/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.10.html

Utopic has gnumeric 1.12.17 so backporting that to Trusty would appear to be one option.

[Bugfisch (boo2060)]

I have the same problem (screenshot attached). Using Ubuntu 14.04.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Fixing patch created by Jean Bréfort

[Penelope Fudd (login-launchpad-net-x)]

How do I get the patched deb files, given that the /etc/apt directory points to my company's local repository?

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Hello,

Could you please confirm that this patch is still needed, and if so, provide a patch to the packaging in debdiff format and subscribe ~ubuntu-sponsors?

Thanks.