Update Applet pops up "nameless window" (synaptic confirmation window)

Bug #125120 reported by Oliver Gerlich
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Synaptic should set a window caption for the dialog when it is run without parent window (--hide-main-window).

When right-clicking on the orange update icon (upper panel, on the right side) and selecting the second menu item ("Install all updates"), a window pops up that has no title. Hence, in task bar it is displayed as "namenloses Fenster" ("nameless window") instead of having a meaningful title (see screenshot below).

IMHO there are two problems with the missing title:
- it conveys a sense of "unfinished system" :-)
- the dialog itself is not that easy to understand (for me), so a title could give the user an additional hint what that application actually wants from him

Revision history for this message
Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich) wrote :
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-notifier:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Feisty reached EOL in October, 2008.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Oneiric and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b) increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for synaptic (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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