Software center's category menu is unreadable with GTK 3.8

[Julien Olivier]

In Ubuntu GNOME, the category menu on the left side of the software center is unreadable with GTK3.8 from the Ubuntu Desktop PPA.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 27 15:01:45 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-15 (954 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2011-04-01 (757 days ago)

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

It appears here that GtkLabel is not getting the correct calculated height when text wrapping is enabled. Probably this is a gtk bug, however I cannot reproduce it with gtk git master (I also can't find any commits that look like they would resolve the issue).

Linked branch works around the issue by disabling text-wrapping in the category pane, however its probably best to find and fix the underlying bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

fixed gtk on gnome3-staging, and will be fixed upstream in 3.8.2

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hum, why did you make your own version of GTK rather than using the one from the ubuntu-desktop ppa which already includes that fix?

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

oh, I had not seen that one ;(