Cannot use window controls on a laptop with touchscreen

Bug #1667604 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Fix Released
Medium
Michał Sawicz
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Lukáš Tinkl

Bug Description

Zesty Desktop up to date on Dell Inspiron 11 3000 with touchscreen

The user cannot interact with the window controls (close/minimize/maximize on the left of the title bar) with his fingers. Taping them does nothing but they work fine with the mouse or trackpad.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: unity8 8.15+17.04.20170216.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-8.10-generic 4.10.0-rc8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 24 09:56:57 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (946 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity8
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2016-11-15 (100 days ago)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

The recommended way to interact with those is after a three-finger tap (they become bigger touch targets).

But yeah, they should work with touch regardless.

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Lukáš Tinkl (lukas-kde)
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Lukáš Tinkl (lukas-kde) wrote :

Confirmed :/ this is a regression, used to work fine until we introduced the touch menus.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
tags: added: unity8-desktop
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.15+17.04.20170308-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.15+17.04.20170308-0ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Let's follow the keyboard order
  * Enable the license check (LP: #1590044)
  * Show a barebones error message if loading the QML doesn't work
  * Make sure cursor is back to normal when closing the window (LP:
    #1666158)
  * Fix small warning when sensitive is undefined
  * Remove unused member variable
  * Initialize m_msecsSinceReference
  * Add warning if registerService fails
  * Move menus Component {} out of the repeater
  * Add tool to browse menus of a running app

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Drag child windows with Alt+LeftMouseButton (LP: #1664947)

  [ Gerry Boland ]
  * TopLevelWindowModel: connect to the OSK surface to know when it goes
    away so we can clean up after it. (LP: #1670681)

  [ Josh Arenson ]
  * Initialize sessionMode to single when mock is reset (LP: #1667463)

  [ Lukáš Tinkl ]
  * Make the menu string "Back" translatable
  * Let the OSK be driven by a switch in indicator-keyboard (LP:
    #1521518)
  * Disable the tutorial when there's no touchscreen (LP: #1661557)
  * Shell chrome fixes (LP: #1658117, #1665723, #1665724, #1669010)
  * Cancel the drag as soon as we're entering the spread (LP: #1668642)
  * Fix being unable to use window control buttons or menus with touch
    (LP: #1667604, #1668387)

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Set QT_IM_MODULE in the greeter so that the OSK can come up. (LP:
    #1670383)
  * Simplify our startup handling of Mir environment variables and set
    the right socket path in snappy.

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * Cancel the home key activation if something else is pressed along
    with Meta (LP: #1670678)
  * close the drawer when something is launched from the launcher (LP:
    #1660367)
  * use a svg instead of a png for the Launcher's BFB (LP: #1668057)
  * change the default setting for the launcher autohiding (LP:
    #1670655)

  [ Nick Dedekind ]
  * Split up Shell::test_spreadDisabled to ensure initial state for each
    test.

 -- Michał Sawicz <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:56:46 +0000

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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