Thank you for your bug report and for your good descripition! I will link this bug upstream.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #704658 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704658 ** Also affects: gimp via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704658 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gimp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205769 Title: Keyboard shortcut dialog hangs when backspacing Status in The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP): Unknown Status in “gimp” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This bug was reported to Gimp first https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704658 But I was asked to report it here because it could be distro specific. Procedure to reproduce: ---------------------------------------- - Open the keyboard shortcuts dialog - Type in something > 3 characters long - backspace all the way It takes a very long time, close to 30 seconds, to backspace till the last character and type again. Some system information: ---------------------------------------- $head -n1 /etc/issue: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS $uname -a: Linux srihari-laptop 3.2.0-51-generic-pae #77-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 24 20:40:32 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ---------------------------------------- Not sure if this is useful, but when the keyboard shortcut dialog hangs, I see this on my terminal: (gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion 'b->depth > 0' failed (gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion 'b->depth > 0' failed (gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion 'b->depth > 0' failed (gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion 'b->depth > 0' failed (gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion 'b->depth > 0' failed (gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion 'b->depth > 0' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gimp/+bug/1205769/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp