The Me Menu

Text Hint ("Post to..") not always hidden when the broadcast field is in use

Bug #655252 reported by David Barth
188
This bug affects 40 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
The Me Menu
Fix Released
Low
Cody Russell
The Me Menu ubuntu-10.10
indicator-me (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Maverick
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

In certain circumstances, the hint printed on the broadcast field background can stay even if the entry is focused and used to type a message.

To reproduce:
1. open the menu, notice the "Post to: ..." hint in the broadcast field
2. hover over the menu up to the "About me" entry
3. hover back and select the broadcast field

Error: the hint stays in the field and what the user types is just added at the end of the "Post to: ..." text
Expected: the hint should be hidden and the user able to type a new message in an empty text entry

Related branches

lp:~dbarth/indicator-me/fix-hint-on-missed-focus-changes
Cody Russell (community): Approve
Diff: 54 lines (+22/-4)
1 file modified
src/indicator-me.c (+22/-4)
lp:~ken-vandine/indicator-me/lp_655252
Ted Gould (community): Approve
Diff: 58 lines (+10/-8)
2 files modified
src/indicator-me.c (+6/-5)
src/me-service.c (+4/-3)
lp:ubuntu/natty/indicator-me
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-me:
assignee: nobody → David Barth (dbarth)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
status: New → In Progress
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Alexey Golovin (spidermc) wrote :

In my case hint never hides, it always stays.

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-me:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu Maverick):
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
status: New → Triaged
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Alexey Golovin (spidermc) wrote :

The bug is still here.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

David, Ken, any news on that?

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in indicator-me:
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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Inessa Sofronova (pixomba) wrote :

I have this bug, too.

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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

The problem he is then entry widget gets the grab-focus and focus-out event at the same time. When it gets the grab-focus event it clears the hint, and if the length of text in the entry is 0 when it gets the focus-out event it adds the hint. So the problem is we are getting the focus-out event before focus leaves the entry widget. I haven't been able to figure out why, I assume it is a gtk bug, but i guess it could be ido or even dbusmenu.

Omer Akram (om26er)
tags: added: regression-release
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Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I think it should have higher priority, it is user experience killer

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

the linked branch does not fix anything

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu Maverick):
importance: Low → Medium
Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in indicator-me:
assignee: David Barth (dbarth) → Cody Russell (bratsche)
Vish (vish)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee: nobody → Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → nt3-ayatana
status: New → Triaged
summary: - Hint not always hidden when the broadcast field is in use
+ Text Hint ("Post to..") not always hidden when the broadcast field is in
+ use
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Bennett Kanuka (bkanuka) wrote :

I agree with Pavol. I recently wanted to post something to facebook, and just remembered I could use the me menu rather than open my browser and go to facebook etc.

I started typing, realised I had to erase the "post to", and spent some time trying to select the text by mouse or double click. I couldn't select the text with either so I had to hold down delete.

Out of 100 ways to post to facebook (via website, my igoogle page, my cell phone, via text message...etc) that was by far the most aggravating and time consuming. I'm not going to use the Me Menu again until this is fixed - and I think many people who are using the Me Menu for the first time will think the same thing too. This should be a high priority bug (at least for the Me Menu) because it completely ruins the experience of its main feature.

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RemcoKorevaar (remcokorevaar) wrote :

The text stays in the field always, except for deleting the text. Quite annoying, think it should have a high importance.

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Vladimir Scherbaev (zemik) wrote :

I agree with you.

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Alexey Golovin (spidermc) wrote :

Is there any solutions/workarounds for this? I wanna use MeMenu right now.

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in indicator-me:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-me - 0.2.15-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-me (0.2.15-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - properly clear the entry hint when selected (LP: #655252)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:36:32 -0500

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Alexey Golovin (spidermc) wrote :

So, bug fix is for Natty, what about Maverick?

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Vladimir Scherbaev (zemik) wrote :

If I click to broadcast field the hint hide.
But if I click to MeMenu and input some text from keyboard the hint not hidden.

Vish (vish)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee: Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja) → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

The fix for this was too invasive to backport to maverick and as of oneiric indicator-me is no longer supported.

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu Maverick):
assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody
milestone: nt3-ayatana → none
Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody
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