HUGE problems with gnucash and Ubuntu 7.10, just released

[Josh Sled]

Fredrik Persson <fredrik.p.persson at gmail.com> writes:
> The new Ubuntu release, 7.10, that's been out for a couple of days now,
> includes the so called "visual effects" by default. This is, as I
> understand it, Compiz Fusion desktop effects.
>
> Gnucash does not work very well under Compiz Fusion, I just noticed. For
> example, it is impossible to enter a date in a register by hand. This
> may very well be a redraw issue, I'm not sure. There are a lot of other
> graphic anomalies too. I'd post a screenshot, but I can't expose by
> personal fincances to the list. I urge the gnucash developers to try and
> run gnucash on a Ubuntu 7.10 box with visual effects turned on to see
> for themselves. It is very easy to find bugs, they're all over the
> place.
>
> When I searched this list for related issues, I saw a thread about
> something called "gnome-canvas" and how that was improperly used in
> gnucash. Can this be another manifestation of the same problem?
>
> Ubuntu is among the biggest Linux distributions out there, if not THE
> most spread. At least for desktop use. Compiz Fusion is now included by
> default. (Not *enabled* by default, but still.)
>
> On my machine, the desktop is significantly *slower* when I *don't*
> enable Compiz Fusion, so this is actually very annoying.

Can you please file a bug with Ubuntu?

I think the presumption is that the gnome-canvas-based, custom register is
the source of the issues.  Certainly it'd be nice if the register rewrite was
done, but – well – it's not.

In the mean time, it'd be good to have a known issue filed in Ubuntu-land for
the problem, so that other people looking for support have a chance of
finding it.

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