sysinfo - about dialog box - close button does not work

I noticed that the "Close"-Button doesn't work in several Gnome applications who make use of the new standard Gnome About Dialog http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog.

Okay I tried some applications and the situation is much better than a year ago... so I have only "fantasdic 1.0-beta3" as an example of another application having the close-button problem in the about dialog.

I've create a patch that corrects part of the problem : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysinfo/+bug/121068/comments/4

debdiff included in bug 121068

sysinfo (0.7-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * References to website http://sysinfo.r8.org replaced by http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo (LP: #138801)
  * About box could only be used once, secodn, etc times it just produced a small rectangle (LP: #174863)
  * Crash when clicking on Nvidia icon (LP: #159974)
  * Use of lsb-release version information (now shows ubuntu release in stead of debian release on ubuntu) (LP: #121068)
  * SystemInfo.cs contained a double + which made the build of the source package fail

 -- Koen Beek <email address hidden> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:13:41 +0100

recent fix only corrected the issue that the about box gets an unusable window after first use.

There is still an issue with the close button in the about dialog box that does not work -> the window manager's close button (the cross) works

Sorry, bug spam necessary because of bug 176085.

This bug has a patch attached, which needs review and sponsoring.

A patch included in bug 121068 has already been sponsored and has been released
There is still an issue about the about box : the close button does not work but at this moment no patch is available yet

unsubscribing u-u-s since there is nothing that requires sponsoring at the moment

As of 2008-04-03, the Close button is still not working. Version 0.7.

Sorry, I do not see an "edit" function for my previous post.

OS: Hardy 8.04 LTS beta, updated to 2008-04-03. KDE 3.5.

It seems that the way the close button signal is transmitted change when going from GTk+2.10

Release notes say : Dialogs created by gtk_about_dialog_new() no longer hide automatically when the user clicks close. It is the applications responsibility to hide or destroy the dialog.

so, I'll add the code to hide the about dialog box and attach a debdiff

A debdiff with a correction to this bug has been attached to bug #211347

 three bugfixes :
 * sysinfo fails to show all hardware when there are a lot of usb or pci controllers
 * debian/patches/02_fix_usb_pci_limit.dpatch (LP: #211347)
 * the close button of the about dialog does not work
 * debian/patches/03_fix_about_close_button.dpatch (LP: #174863)
 * sysinfo should check whether nvidia-settings is installed
 * debian/patches/04_check_nvidia_settings.dpatch (LP: #213507)

This bug was fixed in the package sysinfo - 0.7-0ubuntu4

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sysinfo (0.7-0ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * three bugfixes :
  * sysinfo fails to show all hardware when there are a lot of usb or pci
    controllers
  * debian/patches/02_fix_usb_pci_limit.dpatch (LP: #211347)
  * the close button of the about dialog does not work
  * debian/patches/03_fix_about_close_button.dpatch (LP: #174863)
  * sysinfo should check whether nvidia-settings is installed
  * debian/patches/04_check_nvidia_settings.dpatch (LP: #213507)

 -- Koen Beek <email address hidden> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:52:37 +0200