Towards the statement This is really not an important bug: it is
blatantly visible to the end user; it is reproducible; it should be
straightforward to fix (I'm not a Gnome developer though I have worked
in other GUI systems).
The workaround (restarting gnome-panel:
I found this bug yesterday (up-to-date Ubuntu 10.10 32bit) while right-
clicking to try and remove directly some apps from the Gnome panel
Applications menu (wishlist: menu-editor shortcut via contextual menu).
To reproduce:
1. Open the Applications menu
2. Open Graphics sub-menu (for instance,
Reproduced today (Apr-27 up-to-date lucid amd64 RC).
This is really not an important bug, yet it may occur to curious people
exploring the linux desktop and thus give them a bad opinion. The panel
freezes, keyboard doesn't work with alt+F2 (should I file a specific bug
here?) so the user has to
thank you for your bug report, I don't confirm the issue there
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
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gnome-panel freeze on cascading contextual app-launcher menu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556311
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I reproduced it again after a while (still after fiddling around with Simple
Scan).
I'll try to pintpoint what triggers this on my machine and try it with another
menu app-launcher.
Running apps: Firefox, Calculator, Transmission
Additionnal steps on the path to reproducing: going several times
Just updated the description since it seems I can reproduce the bug more
consistently now when rolling over the first menu panes (without
interfering with the right-click triggered 2 panes)
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I found this bug yesterday (up-to-date
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I found this bug yesterday (up-to-date Lucid beta1 64bit) while right-
clicking to try and remove directly some apps from the Gnome panel
Applications menu (wishlist: menu-editor shortcut via contextual menu).
To reproduce:
