Bug#721758: gedit: Preferences menu option missing. Old preferences still applied.

[Jason Mitchell]

Package: gedit
Version: 3.8.3-3+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

 I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade and updated my gedit.  The update led to there being no ability to adjust preferences directly from the gui.
 This may be related to another bug which is that the plugins are no longer applied.  I'm going to file that soon.
 One other bit of differing behavior, though maybe intended with the update, is that gedit produces no error outputs to stderr when running as myself, normally I get a good amount of text.
 When I run as root I get this data to the terminal.

On launch:

 (gedit:21966): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

 (gedit:21966): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

 (gedit:21966): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
 Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
 Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
 Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
 Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
 Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)

Once typing, non-repeating (shows only once):
 (gedit:21966): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_application_inhibit: assertion `application->priv->sm_proxy != NULL' failed
 
 So I've always seen stuff like this though and would before see plenty of it when running as myself.

 With the mention of dconf in those errors I know what you might be thinking.
 I think I've seen that there before.
 To check I went to my other system running jessie that was updated earlier.
 It is running the same version with no issues and not stderr output for either root nor user.
 That's strange because I've always been used to some output on every system I've used from debian to ubuntu.
 Wish I could confirm it on multiple systems.  I have done a reinstall of all gedit packages and the bug persists.

 gdb yielded nothing interesting.  Would valgrind but I'm rusty with that.





-- Package-specific info:
Active plugins:
  - 'modelines'
  -  'spell'
  -  'time'
  -  'docinfo'
  -  'filebrowser'

No plugin installed in $HOME.

Module versions:
  - glib                  2.36.4
  - gtk+                  3.8.2
  - gtksourceview         3.8.2
  - pygobject             
  - enchant               
  - iso-codes             3.45


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common               3.8.3-3
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0            1.8.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-3
ii  iso-codes                  3.45-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.8.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-92
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.14-4
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.14-4
ii  libenchant1c2a             1.6.0-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1      1.36.0-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.8.2-3
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1     3.8.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpeas-1.0-0              1.8.1-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  python-gi-cairo            3.8.2-1
ii  python3                    3.3.2-15
ii  python3-gi                 3.8.2-1

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  yelp    3.8.1-2
ii  zenity  3.8.0-1

Versions of packages gedit suggests:
ii  gedit-plugins  3.8.3-1+b1

-- no debconf information