20110714

This week's Hug Day will focus on GNOME Control Center!

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Upstream project

The GNOME Control Center upstream Bug Tracker and Home page are:

Please check for already bugs filed in the upstream Bug tracker before sending our reports.

Stock Responses

For problem specific Stock Responses see: Bugs/Responses

50 New Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or

  • Set status to Confirmed

Bug

Subject

Triager

808136

gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV

brendan-donegan

808083

gnome-keybinding-properties reverts to default on reboot

rodrigo-moya

807107

gnome-control-center Date and Time settings do not affect the Date and Time indicator

rodrigo-moya

807099

XF86 keys are not being sensed by key grabber

rodrigo-moya

805490

Sound preferences dialog resizes vertically without reason when selecting another alert sound

rodrigo-moya

805066

gnome-control-center crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

rodrigo-moya

799895

No sound, out of the box, for Oneiric Alpha1 on ACER AO532h netbook

799178

control center is empty - no icons shown

brendan-donegan

799176

Switching external display to highest resolution: screen goes blank

brendan-donegan

797833

gnome-control-center icons disappear after changing "Contrast" in "Universal Access" settings

brendan-donegan

797549

can't change alt-tab behaviour

797532

Typing Monitor don't starts break

WalterGarciaFontes

797422

update manager failed on package libgnome-window-settings1

795349

[Dell Latitude E6420] gnome-mouse-properties does not provide Touchpad settings

kentb

771263

unity shortcuts do not use appropriate keyboard layout

792848

Keyboard section no longer has the detailed options that were in Natty i.e. ctrl key position

791787

gnome-appearance-properties not installing themes correctly

Kamus

786309

cannot set default mail reader to alpine or anything else

WalterGarciaFontes

786058

gnome-display-properties does not show or set scaling mode

pvillavi

783749

gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

782886

Nonlocalizable strings: language support

rodrigo-moya

780974

title inconsistency for System settings in Unity

evfool

779573

cannot make keyboard layout global/system-wide

778746

Cannot set custom applications for browsing and email in Natty

brendan-donegan

777781

banshee does not have an icon in the preferred applications dropdown

WalterGarciaFontes

777586

The resolution is stuck at 1024x768

776441

Allows binding useless mod4/winkey hotkeys; stolen by Unity

776060

Background Picker Dialog Under Appearance Takes Excessive Time To Load And Sometimes Hangs

775131

Cannot make external HDMI monitor the default monitor

772211

System-wide proxy settings do not affect apt-get, wget

741151

Switching between screens turns on "Same image on all monitors" when closing laptop lid

771847

[regression?] No way to enable desktop effects in classic session

771824

pointer speed/acceleration should be device specific, not generic

769502

Trackpad on Dell Latitude E5500 becomes insufferably slow

769366

Monitor prefs: poor resolution options when EDID fails

767217

Appearance Panel: Changing fonts and resolution without effect

766781

gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_equal()

766490

[Natty-Beta2] Turning off laptop monitor turn off both monitors (laptop and external) on Vostro 3500

766200

LCD monitor attached to laptop flickers

764006

gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

760084

gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in gnome_bg_changes_with_time()

759494

gnome-about-me crashed with SIGSEGV in g_cclosure_marshal_VOIDVOID()

756950

Rhythmbox is selected as preferred multimedia application but is not present by default

brendan-donegan

756829

there should be a easy way to reach the configuration GUI in Natty Unity

evfool

756827

gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash()

755898

gnome-keyring-daemon not available in apps started from global shortcuts

754726

Covers Unity's 'Close' button with orange box

brendan-donegan

753966

gnome-display-properties needs a newer version oflibgnome-desktop-2.so.17

753311

In Portuguese language, Keyboard shortcut's information text has large gap between each word

751756

Request: Add an image viewer to Preferred Applications

evfool

15 Incomplete Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Change the bug's status to "Confirmed" or "Triaged" if the reporter replied with enough information or

  • Ask a secondary follow up question and subscribe to the bug report

Bug

Subject

Triager

806934

Mouse properties option "Trigger secondary click by holding down the primary button" doesn't work

brendan-donegan

798962

"automatic login" not saved or respected

brendan-donegan

772639

can't assign keyboard shortcuts for "Move to workspace X"

754615

gnome-appearance-properties dont close

694787

"Select windows when the mouse moves over them" ignored

676854

users & groups clicked from gnome-control-center hangs forever

brendan-donegan

675067

Wallpaper goes black when changed

661797

keyboard applet didn't show anymore the keyboard disposition

657804

rotation radio buttons do not take account of "restore previous configuration"

644659

"Enable extra typographic characters" conflicts and overrides "Adding Esperanto circumflexes" option in gnome-keyboard-preferences

642171

screen wrapped around including wallpaper, applications menu covered by time user logout etc.

641641

Lose netbook main menu if screen is repositioned

598126

Web Open Font Format

591895

removing a keyboard layout is not persistent across reboots

587132

no smooth scroll option in mouse preferences for GNOME environment

35 Confirmed Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
  • Set status to triaged UbuntuBugControl

Bug

Subject

Triager

808512

No way to configure screensaver in Oneiric

805504

info capplet: Failed to calculate disk space

brendan-donegan

805493

The Keyboard Preferences opens the 'Region & Language' dialog

805489

printer capplet requires cups-pk-helper

brendan-donegan

791179

gnome-about-me fails to launch

brendan-donegan

787613

use of "Windows Key" instead of "Meta Key"

786311

help fails in gnome-default-applications chooser

773512

The right super-key doesn't work anymore as a compose key

709087

Resize grip in theme previews

708382

cannot create "custom" preferred applications

707007

Monitor Preferences dialog buttons lacks conformity with rest of OS

701957

Had to enable assitive technologies 2 times

701950

keyboard layout changes randomly

695938

gnome-about-me does not allow changing of user full name

692893

keyboard preferences won't persist restart

438767

About Me should allow users to choose which name is shown in the MeMenu.

672431

Lock screen should be consistent with show/hide desktop shortcut

680734

gnome-appearance-properties spikes the CPU

669855

keyboard layout is being reset on every reboot

663409

(gnome-about-me) problems without evolution-data-server

655713

RFC: Logic needed to disable built in pointing devices when external devices are connected

643825

Need explanation for "Drag and drop threshold"

brendan-donegan

615859

"Select windows when the mouse moves over them" is incompatible with global menu bar

608190

gnome-appearance-properties doesn't properly change window border

576133

Problem creating a user with encrypted home directory and automatic logon.

572628

gnome-display-properties spelling error

542305

gnome-keyboard-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in make_default()

535322

no gui options to switch title bar buttons back to right side

533775

No icon for volume or typing break after upgrade to lucid

527014

Themes with ampersands do not show up in appearance preferences

525628

wget is not working as normal user, but working for root

521290

keyboard layouts - no default layout for system

514972

Keyboard selector scroll UI has large blank area

508427

Printout of the keyboard layout "Dell Latitude series laptop" is empty.

507095

[gnome-network-properties] password needs to be entered twice after "Apply System-Wide..." (Network Proxy Preferences)

5 Bugs with Patches

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify if the patch really is a patch.
  • If it is not, unmark it as a patch.
  • If it is, get the bug triaged and looked by the maintainer.

Bug

Subject

Triager

628293

gnome-default-applications-properties does not set needs_term for mailer presets

rodrigo-moya

386017

Brushing right-edge of trackpad causes clipboard to paste text

542001

gnome-network-properties: put the cursor at the end of the proxy entry while typing

426724

login-screen has no user-pictures with encrypted home directories

426644

Manual page is missing for gnome-appearance-properties

rodrigo-moya

Progress

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More Bugs

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