UI event focus stuck in some pane, impossible to reach the rest of the UI

Bug #1087999 reported by Eugene Crosser
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
transgui (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Quantal
Fix Released
Medium
Andreas Noteng

Bug Description

[Impact]

 * Overlay scrollbars are broken, and focus gets stuck in one of the panes

 * The fix needs to be backported because in the current state, transgui is unusable.

 * The fix includes an upstream vcs commit which adds some checks that effectively disables overlay scrollbars

[Test Case]

 * Install transgui and try to use it, see that the scrollbars won't work, and that focus will get stuck

[Regression Potential]

 * Regressions are unlikely as all this does is disable the overlay scrollbars. It's unlikely to affect other packages as transgui is a frontend, and it has no revdeps.

 * The newer upstream release has been tested by me since release, and the patched version seems to work fine on my computer.

[Original description]

It seems that the problem reported as Bug #865410 reappeared in quantal. Right after start of the app, the UI works as it should, but after a few clicks, wherever in the window I click a mouse button, or regardless of how many times I hit the TAB key, the clicks and keypresses end up in just one pane of the window (usually "torrent details" pane) and no operation that needs a click in another pane, including menu, can be performed.

Note that the package uses overlay scrollbars now; last time disabling the overlay scrollbars alleviated the problem.

Happens under Unity and Cinnamon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: transgui 4.0.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 8 19:27:26 2012
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: transgui
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-17 (21 days ago)

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Eugene Crosser (crosser) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng) wrote :

Hello, could you please test the latest version and see if the problem still exists? You can download it from Sid: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/transgui

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Eugene Crosser (crosser) wrote :

installed transgui_4.1-1_amd64.deb replacing the Ubuntu version, seems to work, scrollbars are "traditional" (i.e. not overlay).
(While I am not a fan of overlay scrollbars, I'd prefer them enabled, so the look of the app is consistent with the rest of the desktop...)

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Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng) wrote :

I'll try to get the newer version imported to quantal. I don't really care for the overlay scrollbars, they're ugly and decreases usability. I'f you want them back (I believe Yuri disabled the intentionally), I'd recommend filing an upstream bug. I just noticed almost none of the apps I use have them enabled..

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng) wrote :

Eugene: Would you please test this package once it has finished building? https://launchpad.net/~andreas-noteng/+archive/transgui/+sourcepub/2830466/+listing-archive-extra

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Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng) wrote :

Fixed in Raring, preparing an SRU for quantal.

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng) wrote :

Debdiff attached. Will request SRU approval once Eugene confirms the fix.

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → quantal-updates
description: updated
Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)
Changed in transgui (Ubuntu Quantal):
assignee: nobody → Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)
Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
assignee: Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng) → nobody
Changed in transgui (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Eugene Crosser (crosser) wrote :

package from comment 6 works fine for me.

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in transgui (Ubuntu):
milestone: quantal-updates → none
Changed in transgui (Ubuntu Quantal):
milestone: none → quantal-updates
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I've uploaded this to the quantal-proposed queue.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Eugene, or anyone else affected,

Accepted transgui into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transgui/4.0.3-2ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Eugene Crosser (crosser) wrote :

Installed version 4.0.3-2ubuntu1 from quantal-proposed, it works correctly wrt. this bug.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package transgui - 4.0.3-2ubuntu1

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transgui (4.0.3-2ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Additional check for overlay scrollbars (lp: #1087999)
 -- Andreas Noteng <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:12:27 -0800

Changed in transgui (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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