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gnome-control-center package

magnification settings do not work on Ubuntu

Bug #945813 reported by Alan Bell
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gnome-control-center
Fix Released
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

gnome-control-center universal access panel has a switch for a screen magnifier and a further dialog with a heap of settings presumably for gnome-mag which is not installed in Ubuntu by default. Having installed the gnome-mag package these settings still do nothing.

The settings should be hidden altogether unless they can be demonstrated to work. Ideally this should be the place to set up keyboard and mouse bindings for the compiz enhanced zoom plugin. I like to use super+mouse button 4 to zoom in and super+button 5 to zoom out, these are the mousewheel buttons.

Tags: a11y
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Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote :

settings that don't do anything

tags: added: a11y
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

gnome-mag is deprecated. The zoom option only works with GNOME Shell (& Mutter); it doesn't do anything in Unity, Unity 2D, or GNOME Classic (with or without effects).

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Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote :

what should we do with it? ripping it out seems harsh as people can use gnome shell on Ubuntu. Could we add some things to poke compiz enhanced zoom into life, and show those bits when compiz is running and the gnome-shell stuff when it isn't? Not sure we have a zoom solution at all with Unity 2d.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

we could hide those settings in Unity session, is there really no way to make them work by tweaking i.e compiz options?

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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bsfmig (bigslowfat) wrote :

I filed it in Gnome bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671386

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

it has been fixed in git: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?id=c48536c10262c39f9a3cb710a64b09f793cd523d

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.3.91-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/96_sound_nua_panel.patch:
    - change X-GNOME-Keywords to Keywords
    - updated to r273, fixes profile selection issues with bluetooth devices
      (lp: #948236)
  * debian/patches/revert_git_drop_library.patch:
    - simplified, don't copy files or create a new dir
  * debian/patches/git_zoom_shell_only.patch:
    - hide zoom option when not under gnome-shell since they do nothing
      on other environments (lp: #945813)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/control.in: Only recommend gnome-session-bin, to avoid pulling in
    all of gnome-session and Unity for derivatives. (LP: #936761)

  [ Aurélien Gâteau ]
  * debian/patches/60_ubuntu_nav_bar.patch: Use a GtkBox instead of a GtkGrid
    so that GTK_STYLE_CLASS_LINKED works.
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:30:18 +0100

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