highlighting current line does not work

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel]

The preference allows for the current line to be highlighted. It used to work under 11.xx, it does not work under 12.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 9 10:02:06 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (7 days ago)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

Filed upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675785

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for sending it upstream.

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

No worries.

Do I now understand correctly that I should report all gedit bugs upstream first and then report here afterwards?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

In case of gedit this is mostly true, as there are only minor changes added by Ubuntu to gedit, so most of the times functional problems should be reported to GNOME. Theming/styling issues can be caused by the Ubuntu default theme, so those ones you should not report to GNOME, but rather to ubuntu first, and a bug triager will decide whether it's an upstream issue or an ubuntu issue. However please keep in mind that this is only true for gedit, as other applications might have a large set of ubuntu-specific changes (e.g. System Settings aka gnome-control-center), so the problem you are experiencing with them might be only ubuntu-specific.

However it's always good to have the bugs reported in ubuntu if you have found the bug in ubuntu, and upstreaming should follow only after the bug has been reported to ubuntu.

I hope this helps, if you have any other questions, I will try to answer them.

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

I will remember.

Thanks.

[Zon Saja (zonsaja)]

I don't think this is an upstream bug (Gedit). It is caused by "GtkView" style selector in gtk-widgets.css in Ambiance theme, so that its child elemets inherit the style. See this post:
http://www.fandigital.com/2012/07/ambiance-fix-gedits-highlight-current.html
I hope this helps.

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

Works okay with version 3.18.3 under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug did not expire due to bug watch
In comment #10 reporter says issue now fixed
Tested ok here with various themes so closing