In case of gedit this is mostly true, as there are only minor changes added by Ubuntu to gedit, so most of the times functional problems should be reported to GNOME. Theming/styling issues can be caused by the Ubuntu default theme, so those ones you should not report to GNOME, but rather to ubuntu first, and a bug triager will decide whether it's an upstream issue or an ubuntu issue. However please keep in mind that this is only true for gedit, as other applications might have a large set of ubuntu-specific changes (e.g. System Settings aka gnome-control-center), so the problem you are experiencing with them might be only ubuntu- specific.
However it's always good to have the bugs reported in ubuntu if you have found the bug in ubuntu, and upstreaming should follow only after the bug has been reported to ubuntu. I hope this helps, if you have any other questions, I will try to answer them. -- 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/996851 Title: highlighting current line does not work Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Unknown Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The preference allows for the current line to be highlighted. It used to work under 11.xx, it does not work under 12.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed May 9 10:02:06 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (7 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/996851/+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
