[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#763565: AW: Bug#763565: [cinnamon] Bug still exists

[VOR (Micha vor dem Berge)]

Hi Marga,

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Trying to reproduce the bug: In the Cinnamon settings, there is a dialog where you can set several things concerning fonts. E.g. antialiasing, hinting - and also the text scaling factor. See the following picture:
http://www.binarytides.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/linux-mint-font-settings.png
When I then click on the + or - to increase/decrease the font scaling factor, wait every time for 2-3 seconds so that the font size really changes (there seems to be a small delay), my cinnamon freezes after clicking around for 10-20 seconds. Sometimes, it also "helped" to also move some windows around, resize windows, change desktops or open the cinnamon menu.

BTW: The "workaround" (killing cinnamon) sometimes helps, but sometimes not so that I had to restart X completely. So this bug already caused data loss to me - this is why I thought the severity 'grave' was correct - although not everybody seems to be hurt by this bug.

Hope this helps,
Micha

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Margarita Manterola [mailto:marga at debian.org] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. März 2015 20:50
An: VOR (Micha vor dem Berge); 763565 at bugs.debian.org
Betreff: Re: Bug#763565: [cinnamon] Bug still exists

Control: -1 severity important

Hola Micha vor dem Berge!

> Severity: Grave

I use cinnamon 2.2 daily, on three different computers, with weird monitor setups (for example, right now I'm on a laptop with DisplayPort -> VGA adapter, using the external monitor) and I don't experience this bug.

I understand that the bug can be annoying for those that do experience it, and I'm sorry for that, but that doesn't mean the program is unusable for everyone.
There's even a workaround (ugly, yes, but at least it exists).  So, no, this doesn't warrant a "grave" severity (particularly not at this point in the release, when grave means it will get removed from Jessie).

> This bug still exists in Testing, but also upstream:
> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/3275

I read that bug and it looks like a big mess of probably different issues, as people are saying that they experience different symptoms under different circumstances.

> I was able to reproduce it very easy by increasing/decreasing the font 
> scale factor multiple times.

Can you elaborate on this? I'd be interested in being able to easily reproduce the bug myself.

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Regards,
Marga