I can understand that the bug reporting experience can be frustrating, it's not ideal for sure. We recommend reporting to launchpad because we want to know about the issues we have on Ubuntu and some of the issues have to do with Ubuntu specific changes.
In an ideal world we would be able to deal with all the feedback, but in practice we don't have the manpower for that. We review the bugslists and try to surface important issues and work on those, which means a lot of the less-critical reports just end up "sitting there". When it looks like the issue is an upstream one and not important enough for us to work on it then I tend to recommend the submitter to try to send it upstream to increase the chances to have it looked at by somebody. Anyway you should have an idea now why things are the way they are at least -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725792 Title: Word-wrap breaks in windows with small width Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When making a window as narrow as possible, I noticed that word-wrap stopped wrapping words before I was done shrinking the window (attached screenshots 1 and 2). By chance I stumbled upon the cause: I tried disabling the sidebar in settings, but accidentally disabled the status bar instead, and suddenly the word-wrap worked immediately: The status bar minimum width is clamping text area/word-wrap width to a larger value than the editor area's actual width. (screenshot 3) I expect the status bar to never interfere with, or cause, the need for horizontal scrolling -- especially when word-wrap exists for the sole purpose of removing horizontal scrolling. I expect the status bar to make due with whatever size it is given. --- (That I tried to find the sidebar settings in 1. the application menu, and 2. the settings panel before finally finding it in 3. an inconspicuous accessory menu in the window's title bar speaks loads about the current design, but is, of course, a separate issue that I don't know how to even begin to address) --- Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 gedit: Installed: 3.22.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.22.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.22.1-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1725792/+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
