The Pointing Devices menu item is missing after upgrading to Oneiric

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This also leads the icon to not show up or work properly in the Unity launcher. It comes up with a generic question mark icon.

If you right-click and attempt to lock it to the launcher, it will jump to the top of the list by itself. If you then quit the program and try to run it from the pinned icon, it will fail to launch entirely (though the icon will glow as if it's going to launch).

I tested on quantal, but the result should be the same for precise and raring (identical source packages and therefore .desktop files).

Debdiff for raring.

Tested on raring as well.

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for the patch, but perhaps the real answer might be to use NotShowIn=KDE or drop the field completely? I bring this up as bug #796171 mentions that this could be useful in Xubuntu as well and it doesn't show there. I imagine that might also be true for Lubuntu as well.

Also, you can close this bug automatically in the changelog entry with (LP: #857983).

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your review and feedback. I took another look and found this Debian bug [1] which was filed on behalf of someone wanting gpointing to appear on LXDE. It was closed wontfix because:

"This is quite intentional, because it uses GNOME infrastructure to
restore settings on new login, what does not work in other desktop
environments."

What do you think?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539696

Updated changelog.

On the other hand, if it's not installed by default in other DEs, what harm is there in the icon appearing?

I'm ok with either patch going through as they both solve the case I'm looking at. I can see an argument for either one wrt to other DEs.

fixed in raring

debdiff for quantal.

Since the source package is identical, I'm not sure if I need to post multiple debdiffs, but what the heck.

Thanks!

Hi,

As this is an SRU you need to change a few things:
 - Add the rationale, testcase and regression potential sections to the bug description
 - You can't upload the same version of the package to both precise and quantal.

You can learn more on what to do for both at:
 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdatePreparation#Update_the_packaging

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Thanks!

New debdiff for quantal.

I would have made the precise version string "ubuntu1" and quantal "ubuntu2" but since raring is already "ubuntu2" I thought I needed to version precise as "ubuntu1" and quantal as "ubuntu1.1". Hope that's right! Thanks!

@Mark: thanks, do you plan to add the SRU infos as well?

Do you guys really need the fix in quantal? We are trying to limit the efforts spent on nonLTS releases (especially when the release is out for already 5 months, it means most users can deal with the bug or moved on to another version)

@seb128, Thanks!

I understand the hesitation on quantal, but yes, I'd still like to see this change in q as well. Due to the shortened support cycle of raring there are commercial accounts (particularly the one that raised this issue with me) that will want to stay with quantal longer than they would have previously. Hope that's ok!

I've uploaded the debdiffs to both precise and quantal.

Hello Andrew, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gpointing-device-settings into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpointing-device-settings/1.5.1-6ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

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Hello Andrew, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gpointing-device-settings into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpointing-device-settings/1.5.1-6ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Thanks. I've verified the fix with 1.5.1-6ubuntu2 in Raring but don't have a Quantal system to test with.

I have verified in quantal with 1.5.1-6ubuntu0.2 from proposed. Thanks!

I've also verified the fix in version 1.5.1-6ubuntu0.1 in precise-proposed.

Can this be released to updates? It's been marked verified for 2 weeks. Thanks!

Verification of bug 796171 complete now.

Thanks,
Adam

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This bug was fixed in the package gpointing-device-settings - 1.5.1-6ubuntu0.1

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gpointing-device-settings (1.5.1-6ubuntu0.1) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/gpointing-device-settings.desktop: allow icon to appear
    in more desktop environments (LP: #857983, #796171)
 -- Mark Russell <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:57:26 -1000

This bug was fixed in the package gpointing-device-settings - 1.5.1-6ubuntu0.2

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gpointing-device-settings (1.5.1-6ubuntu0.2) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/gpointing-device-settings.desktop: allow icon to appear
    in more desktop environments (LP: #857983, #796171)
 -- Mark Russell <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:47:08 -0400