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Dapper update caused tabs in Epiphany, GEdit, etc to overflow

Bug #50104 reported by Ealden Escañan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GTK+
Fix Released
Medium
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Sebastian Dröge

Bug Description

I have epiphany-browser from dapper-updates, and when I open new tabs it overflows in the tab bar. Previously, arrow heads appear when the number of tabs exceed the size of the tab bar.

This happens whether I use the keyboard shortcut (C-T) or the item in the File menu. I've also observed this in both my desktop and laptop, with or without a clean ~/.gnome2/epiphany folder.

The problem disappears when you select a different tab.

I'll attached a screenshot to better explain the situation.

Update: seems that this isn't specific to Epiphany, as I tried downgrading to the Dapper Final version and the problem still persisted. In Dapper Final this problem isn't present, but upgrading it to the dapper-updates packages shows the problem. I guess one of the dapper-updates package is at fault here.

Update 2: found out through elimination that libgtk2.0-0 might be at fault here.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Screenshot of overflow

Screenshot of overflow. The easiest way to reproduce is to open Epiphany and then create a lot of new tabs. This also happens when browsing sites though.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Re: [Bug 50104] Tab overflow in tab bar

On 6/17/06, Ealden Esto E. Escañan <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I have epiphany-browser from dapper-updates,

It seems that this problem isn't specific to the version in
dapper-updates: I decided to downgrade to the version that comes with
Dapper Final and the problem still persists.

I've checked the installation in my sister's laptop which has Dapper
Final and the problem I described isn't there. Installing updates
from dapper-updates lead to the problem to manifest itself.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Re: Tab overflow in tab bar

Removed from epiphany-browser since this problem seems to not be specific to the said package.

Ealden Escañan (ealden)
description: updated
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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Re: [Bug 50104] Re: Tab overflow in tab bar

On 6/17/06, Ealden Esto E. Escañan <email address hidden> wrote:
> Removed from epiphany-browser since this problem seems to not be
> specific to the said package.
>

This happens in gEdit as well.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Re: Tab overflow in Epiphany's tab bar

Found out by elimination that libgtk2.0-0 was causing the problem

description: updated
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LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb) wrote :

I've commited this bug as #50332 and I've also seen it in Galeon once!!

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Zak B. Elep (zakame) wrote :

Setting source package to gtk+2.0.

Can anyone else reproduce this? I cant just seem to reproduce it in a fresh update of Dapper with libgtk2.0-0 (2.8.18-0ubuntu1)...

Changed in libgtk2.0-0:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Strace of Epiphany

Strace of Epiphany. What I did was to open Epiphany, create tabs until the bug came out, and then did an `ALT-F4` to close.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Strace of GEdit

Same process as with the strace of Epiphany

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LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb) wrote :

I've seen this behaviour on additional two machnies, both of them are fresh dapper, one is i686, one is AMD64. Confirmed apps: Galeon, Gedit, Epiphany.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote : Re: [Bug 50104] Re: Dapper update caused tabs in Epiphany, GEdit, etc to overflow

On 6/20/06, LGB [Gábor Lénárt] <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've seen this behaviour on additional two machnies, both of them are
> fresh dapper, one is i686, one is AMD64. Confirmed apps: Galeon, Gedit,
> Epiphany.
>

What version of libgtk2.0-0 do you have? Can you do a `dpkg -s
libgtk2.0-0` or check in Synaptic and reply with the result?

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LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb) wrote :

Version is 2.8.18-0ubuntu1

I don't know it is changes something or not, but I'm using clearlooks theme on all of the machines I've tried (and succeeded) reproducing this bug.

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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote :

On 6/21/06, LGB [Gábor Lénárt] <email address hidden> wrote:
> Version is 2.8.18-0ubuntu1

2.8.18-0ubuntu1 came from dapper-updates. Dapper came with
2.8.17-1ubuntu5. I was kinda thrown off when you mentioned "fresh
dapper" so I checked :-).

Could you downgrade libgtk2.0-0 from 2.8.18-0ubuntu1 to
2.8.17-1ubuntu5? You can do this in Synaptic with the Force Version
option?

> I don't know it is changes something or not, but I'm using clearlooks
> theme on all of the machines I've tried (and succeeded) reproducing this
> bug.
>

Hmm I tried changing themes and the bug was still there.

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

I can confirm this bug, at least in epiphany. It doesn't happen with 2.8.17 but does happen with 2.8.18.
Changing to another tab "fixes" it

Changed in gtk+2.0:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
Sebastian Dröge (slomo)
Changed in gtk+2.0:
assignee: nobody → slomo
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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Ok, a fix for this is now uploaded to dapper-updates and only waiting for approval... should be updateable soon :)

Changed in gtk+2.0:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Changed in gtk:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Ealden Escañan (ealden) wrote :

Updated today. Version 2.8.18-0ubuntu2 fixed the bug. Thanks! :-)

Changed in gtk+2.0:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gtk:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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