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gnome-control-center package

Help button doesn't launch help

Bug #545107 reported by Stuart Bishop
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OEM Priority Project
Fix Released
Medium
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gnome-control-center
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Bug #224824 resurfaces in Lucid. Clicking the 'Help' button in gnome-keyboard-properties just closes the window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 23 20:58:49 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.29.92-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Shalom Ben-Zvi Kazaz (shalom) wrote :

I'm experiencing the same bug, only I'm with 10.4 beta 2,
Linux my-laptop 2.6.32-19-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 1 10:39:41 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Stuart Bishop (stub)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: New → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug is fixed upstream now

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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MestreLion (mestrelion) wrote :

It is still present on 10.10 Maverick. If upstream was fixed almost 1 year ago, shouldnt Update Manager have already download the fix / updated package?

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Steve Magoun (smagoun) wrote :

It looks like the upstream fix was inadvertently reverted upstream:

Original commit:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/capplets/keyboard/gnome-keyboard-properties-dialog.ui?h=gnome-2-32&id=05c1f574d52478cd679e105915a4c33c11f7ed5e

Unrelated commit that reverted the original:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/capplets/keyboard/gnome-keyboard-properties-dialog.ui?h=gnome-2-32&id=f5d8d65b83e89189d5e38ccbae298c267abf213e

Changed in oem-priority:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks Steve!

I reapplied the fix in http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=65c9ea129aad8caf59fb91583d3b61783314a8d2

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Also applied to our packaging branch, will upload after beta-1.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in oem-priority:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu12

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gnome-control-center (1:2.32.1-0ubuntu12) natty; urgency=low

  * Add 00git_keyboard_help_button.patch: Re-fix help button in the keyboard
    preferences. (LP: #545107)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:49:52 +0200

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof)
Changed in oem-priority:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Shang Wu (shangwu) wrote :

With the latest update on Natty, I still getting the error message. Can anyone else confirm this?

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