gnome-mouse-properties should enable accessibility when required

Bug #226992 reported by Brett Alton
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center
Fix Released
Medium
mousetweaks (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

First off, I get this error in Launchpad: "gnome-mouse-properties" does not exist in Ubuntu. Please choose a different package. If you're unsure, please select "I don't know"

Running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, Nautilus 2.22.2, etc., gnome-mouse-properties (which is advertised in GNOME's 2.22 release notes (http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/#rna11y)) is inaccessible and unusable.

Steps to reproduce
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1) Run 'gnome-mouse-properties' either through a terminal or by clicking "System > Preferences > Mouse"
2) You should be under the General tab -- click the 'Accessibility' tab
3) Under 'Simulated Secondary Click', try to enable 'Trigger secondary click by holding down the primary button' or under 'Dwell Click', try to enable 'Initiate click when stopping pointer movement'
4) Error dialog: '<b>Assistive Technologies not enabled</b>\n Mousetweaks requires Assistive Technologies.'

What should happen
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The preferences should be enabled automatically with no form of error

What currently happens
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An error dialog appears telling the using that 'Mousetweaks requires Assistive Technologies' but doesn't state where or how to enable it.

This is an accessibility problem as its a generic error and it gives no assistance to the user to tell them how to enable 'Assistive Technologies'. I was lucky enough to know I could find 'Assistive Technologies' under 'System > Preferences > Assistive Technologies'. Others may not be so lucky.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531693

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue has been fixed upstream now

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Simply amazing. Thank you for your time and effort Sebastian.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the new version is available in ubuntu now

Changed in mousetweaks:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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