Gnome Workspace Switche Preferences: Number of workspaces number-field arrow buttons don't work

Tried to confirm and failed.

Confirmed, several clicks are required to increment by 1, that's probably due to the change for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336731

I've commented on the upstream bug about that

Attached patch gives desired functionality of the spin control.

Philip, thank you for your work on that. Why do you use "100.0" for the page increment?

Force of habit using the 100.0 for the page i.e. increments for a button two press to jump straight to either the max or or min value depending on the spin arrow clicked on. This can be easily changed to 1.0 for single stepping or another value e.g. the maximum workspace allowable which I think is 36.

changing to 1.0 will make the spin buttons switch between values fast again

Setting the page value to 1.0 in conjunction with step of 1.0 is fine here. You get correct changes for single clicks and a speed up if click and hold.

Have you read the upstream bug pointed previously? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336731

Having read through the contents of the link, I am more confused than before and am suspicious of how the spin button may have been set up. I am going to have a dig deeper into this and see what's going on. I will post more comments etc. as this progresses.

If adjustment is made to the spin button step and page values we see the following bug appear. Though the single stepping works fine, when you click and hold down the mouse button for faster stepping, metacity crashes after a visible refresh of the whole dialog box.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/86436

fixed upstream

fresh install of feisty herd4 still has this bug.
cant use up/down keys or click with the mouse.
only typing the number works.

problem still exists in Workspace Switcher-Applet 2.17.91 (Ubuntu Feisty last updated on 2007-02-23)

I can change the number of workspaces only either
- by typing (entering a number via keyboard) or
- pressing & holding down the left mouse button on the up/down keys

That bug has been identified, confirmed and fixed upstream, no need to describe it again. The fix will be uploaded to Ubuntu next week with the new GNOME

That upload fixes the bug:

 gnome-panel (2.17.92-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     Panel:
     - Fix wrong initial position of menu (Ubuntu: #30146)
     - Code cleanups
     - Add missing mnemonics in main menu
     - Don't show multiple times a dialog about an applet failing to load
     - Don't try to load again in the same session an applet that failed to
       load before
     - Get localized names when starting a launcher so that the startup
       notification use the translated name
     - Fix image size on the run dialog so that it's always the correct size
     - Set automatic gravity for the labels in the menubar, so that japanese
       and other scripts are correctly displayed on vertical panels
     Workspace Switcher Applet:
     - Make mouse scrolling correctly work in RTL environments
     - Performance improvement when a workspace is renamed/added/removed.
       This has an important impact when accessibility is turned on.
     - Fix speed of the spin button for number of workspaces (Ubuntu: #83334)
     Clock Applet:
     - Set automatic gravity for the clock label, so that japanese and other
       scripts are correctly displayed on vertical panels
     - Make it possible to use markup for the clock text, which is useful
       with custom format
     - Don't wake up every second if it's not necessary
     Misc:
     - Add missing check for gconf for libpanel-applet
     - Require pango 1.15.4
     - Distribute MAINTAINERS
     Docs:
     - Update fish screenshot
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on libgconf2-dev (>= 2.6.1), libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.15.4)
     - package maintainer by the Ubuntu Desktop Team
   * debian/patches/07_use_beagle.patch:
     - dropped the patch changing the search menu item, beagle users want to
       use gnome-search-tools also and beagle is to the applications menu
   * debian/patches/09_lpi_src.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/11_panel_addto_dialog.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/12_autoreconf.patch:
     - renamed to reflect the right command and updated

This may be a different bug, based on the date stamp, but the effect is very similar. When I click on the preferences menu for the virtual desktop app, I see two 0. I can change the number, and hit the buttons, but when I hit the buttons, the number of desktops, and rows, stay at zero. When I type a number into the box, nothing happens.

Thanks.