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Shutdown dialog - hotkey clash between the hibernate and help buttons

Bug #292734 reported by yaxu
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gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Karmic by yaxu

Bug Description

* Warning, while verifying this bug don't leave the shutdown dialog open, it shuts your system down in 60 seconds! *

On freshly installed and up to date intrepid ibex

1/ I press the power button wanting to hibernate, and the shut down dialog comes up as expected.
2/ But, the dialog isn't in focus! (seems odd, maybe I should report this as a separate bug? same thing happens from the system-shutdown menu)
3/ I press alt-tab to focus the dialog
4/ I press alt-h to hibernate, expecting it to hibernate, but nothing happens
5/ I press it again, and it just cycles the selection between the 'hibernate' and 'help' buttons
6/ I give up and use the mouse

both buttons have the 'h' underlined, so this is a simple hotkey clash

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yaxu (alex-slab) wrote :
Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)
Changed in gnome-session:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-session:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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max (maxozilla) wrote :

I can confirm this bug still exists in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 dev. There is still a hotkey clash, and the window isn't in focus.

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yaxu (alex-slab) wrote :

Is this likely to be fixed in Jaunty? It's quite an annoying bug, it bites me a couple of times a day.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

no, changing the strings would mean break all the translations now

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max (maxozilla) wrote :

This bug has been around for ages now, and should be pretty easy to fix. I don't understand why it can't be fixed - just update the translations. It's only one single character that needs to be updated: the letter 'H'.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the translations match an english string, if the reference string change the translations need to be revalidated by translators which is not automatic and can take a while, not something to change after string freeze now

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yaxu (alex-slab) wrote :

Will this be fixed in 9.10?

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yaxu (alex-slab) wrote :

I can confirm that this is still a problem in Karmic alpha-3 .

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max (maxozilla) wrote :

This is crazy, this bug is so easy to fix, it should have been fixed by now. This needs to be fixed urgently before any more code revisions.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug reports are not user forum, the recent comments about what ought to be fixed is no useful

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-session - 2.27.5-0ubuntu2

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gnome-session (2.27.5-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/80_new_upstream_session_dialog.patch:
    - change the hibernate accelerator to not conflict (lp: #292734)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:26:59 +0200

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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