Apport dialogs on startup have poor usability
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Today I installed a mainline kernel for testing an unrelated bug and rebooted. On login apport popped up a non-localized error dialog. About a minute or two later apport popped up a second error dialog, this time it was translated to my desktop language (Lithuanian).
These dialogs are elusive: I cannot focus them with Alt-Tab, and they don't show up in GNOME Shell's Overview. If I open a large window (such as a maximized web browser), I can easily forget about them, because there's practically no way to focus them, short of moving all the other windows to a different workspace.
They're also annoyingly useless: when I click 'Report a problem...', I'm prompted for my password (once for each dialog). And then nothing happens at all.
Also, I see only one recent crash report in /var/crash, which means I'm getting two popups for a single crash:
$ LC_ALL=C ls -lrt /var/crash
total 756
-rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie 766830 Jan 7 20:23 susres.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root whoopsie 0 Jan 7 20:24 susres.
-rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie 0 Jan 8 13:09 susres.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root whoopsie 2564 Jan 10 12:41 virtualbox-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: apport 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-
ApportLog:
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
640:0:
644:0:
644:0:
600:105:
Date: Fri Jan 10 13:52:26 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-25 (533 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (84 days ago)
Regarding non-Alt-Tabbable, excluded from Overview popups: according to gnome-shell developers on IRC, it's because _NET_WM_STATE includes _NET_WM_ STATE_SKIP_ TASKBAR.