Bug#1089560: /usr/bin/pluma: Character Encoding combo box doesn't show an initial selection

[LogicFinity <logicfinity@zohomail.com>]

Package: pluma
Version: 1.26.0-1+deb12u1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/pluma
X-Debbugs-Cc: logicfinity@zohomail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I found a minor GUI bug where the Character Encoding combo box doesn't show
that anything is selected.

Steps to reproduce:

- Launch the pluma text editor.
- File -> Open
- The Character Encoding combo box doesn't show that anything is selected. In
earlier versions of pluma (confirmed on Devuan Jessie, pluma 1.8.1), the combo
box defaults to the first choice "Automatically Detected". Internally, the
first choice IS selected, but the GUI doesn't show it.

I have downloaded the code, found the cause, developed a proposed fix, and
posted an issue with the proposed fix (including its side effects) at the Mate
desktop's Pluma project on github.

  https://github.com/mate-desktop/pluma/issues/703

I have not yet created a pull request on github, since I haven't figured out
how yet.

I didn't know that I should have posted the bug in Debian first, and let the
maintainers contact the Mate maintainers.

If I want to fix this in the distribution that I use (Devuan Daedalus), which
is based on Debian Bookworm, should I create a patch and submit it to the
Debian Bug Tracking System?

Thanks,
LogicFinity


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.7
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pluma depends on:
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0        1.34.0-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-pluma-1.0       1.26.0-1+deb12u1
ii  iso-codes              4.15.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0            2.46.0-5
ii  libc6                  2.36-9+deb12u9
ii  libcairo2              1.16.0-7
ii  libenchant-2-2         2.3.3-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0    2.42.10+dfsg-1+deb12u1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1  1.74.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.74.6-2+deb12u4
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.24.38-2~deb12u3
ii  libgtksourceview-4-0   4.8.4-4
ii  libice6                2:1.0.10-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0         1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpeas-1.0-0          1.34.0-1+b1
ii  libsm6                 2:1.2.3-1
ii  libx11-6               2:1.8.4-2+deb12u2
ii  libxml2                2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
ii  mate-desktop-common    1.26.0-2
ii  pluma-common           1.26.0-1+deb12u1

Versions of packages pluma recommends:
ii  zenity  3.44.0-1

pluma suggests no packages.

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