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virtualbox-ose help menus and buttons don't work

Bug #383823 reported by Robin Sheat
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

If you go 'help->contents...' or click a 'help' button on a dialogue, you don't get help. You just get ignored.

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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

The documentation of VirtualBox is not free so it can't be included in Ubuntu (Bug #243782).

Help buttons will be removed in the next upload (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531320).

Felix Geyer (debfx)
Changed in virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

"Help => Contents" should be ignored already, see bug 323988 (for Jaunty).

Felix has submitted a patch to remove Help buttons from dialogs.

Have you planned anything else apart from that, Felix?

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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

No, the only option we have would be to display a download link to the manual (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.4/UserManual.pdf).

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ose - 2.2.4-dfsg-1ubuntu1

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virtualbox-ose (2.2.4-dfsg-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, fixes the following bugs:
    - Virtualbox OSE mouse integration doesn't work (LP: #379057)
    - vboxwebsrv/vboxwebserv name confusion (LP: #383134)
    - virtualbox-ose help buttons don't work (LP: #383823)
  * Automatically load vboxvfs kernel module and mount all shared folders
    from /etc/fstab (LP: #385494)
  * Stop providing/replacing virtualbox, virtualbox-* and virtualbox-source,
    so that virtualbox-ose and virtualbox-ose-source can conflict with
    virtualbox, virtualbox-2.0, virtualbox-2.1 and virtualbox-2.2 (LP: #379878)

virtualbox-ose (2.2.4-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Version, closes: #531468
  * Added patch by Felix Geyer <email address hidden> to remove disabled help
    buttons, closes: #531320
  * Moved hal driver description to make sure it gets merged in after evdev
    driver description, closes: #531618

virtualbox-ose (2.2.2-dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Made virtualbox-ose-qt package only replace older virtualbox-ose packages
    that still contained the qt frontend, closes: #527140
  * Added the same versioning for virtualbox-ose-guest-x11.
  * Fixed typo in vboxwebsrv call.
  * Applied patch by Felix Geyer <email address hidden> to make X autodetect
    mouse using hal, closes: #530299
  * Applied patch by Felix Geyer <email address hidden> to set correct
    permissions for guest devices, closes: #530302
  * Remove vbox.cfg as suggested and implemented by Daniel Hahler
    <email address hidden>, closes: #530321

 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:40:03 +0200

Changed in virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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