Update-manager checkboxes not working with Orca
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
To reproduce this bug, install and run Orca, the Gnome screen reader. Then, run update-manager from the System/
This same bug exists in gnome-app-install. Both applications are written in Python, and seem to share the concept of a list of checked items, and both lists fail to work properly with Orca in the exact same manner. Joanmarie, the lead developer of Orca, has examined carefully the debug output from Orca when trying toggle the gnome-app-install check boxes. The messages in that case coming from gnome-app-install do not report that the checkbox was toggled, and even though the checkbox has been toggled, if you move away and then back to the item, gnome-app-install reportes in a message to Orca that the checkbox is still checked. I believe this is also the case with update-manager. The bug may be in the checkbox control not reporting the toggle properly.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 12 10:53:19 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100331.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
importance: | High → Medium |
Isaac pointed out an error in my description. There is a bug in gksu that causes multiple applications to have trouble with Orca in Lucid, when started from the System/ Administration menu. To run network manager, users run it directly instead, with 'sudo update-manager'.