clicking accessibility applet gives error "gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties not found"

[Martin Pool]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

On hardy, I dragged the accessibility applet to the dock. It appears as a little wheelchair, as expected. Clicking it gives an error message. It should bring up the keyboard accessibility control panel.

Strangely enough I can reach that control panel through the Preferences menu.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

This is a regression from gutsy.

I get the same error when right clicking and then choosing Preferences from the menu.

Apparently this window is reached by running "gnome-keyboard-properties --a11y". So it seems like you either need a shell script under the old name or to update the applet, etc.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Confirmed, thanks for your report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-applets - 2.21.4-0ubuntu4

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gnome-applets (2.21.4-0ubuntu4) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/16_correct_keyboard_accessibility.patch:
    - use correct command to start the keyboard accessibility capplet
      (lp: #191168)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:46:05 +0100

[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

Hmmm, i can reproduce this on a up to date ubuntu hardy beta. So i reopen this bug.

$ dpkg -l gnome-applets
ii gnome-applets 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - binary files

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

The latest version is ubuntu4. Please update your system and see if you get the error.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-applets - 2.22.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-applets (2.22.1-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Misc: require gweather applet >= 2.22.1, do not check for libxml2
    - Weather Applet: Use new gweather API to parse the locations file
    - Accessibility Status: Run the correct command to bring up the
      configuration dialog. (lp: #191168)
    Translation updates
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libgweather requirement
  * debian/patches/98_autoreconf.patch:
    - new version update

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:24:02 +0200

[truant (launchpad-ninj4)]

I'm still seeing this bug. I'm running gnome-applets version 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 on Hardy x64, fully up to date (as far as apt knows, anyway - the repo is reporting 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 as the most up to date available).

"There was an error launching the keyboard preferences dialogue: Failed to execute child process "gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties" (No such file or directory)"

Funny thing though, the keyboard accessibility control panel still loads, despite throwing an error. Although it refuses to remember any changes (both launched via the applet and through system prefs) - stickykeys appears to not work at all.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[truant (launchpad-ninj4)]

I'm more than happy (no stickykeys makes my wrists sad) to help test this, but am not entirely sure how I would do so....

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

verification done:

- test with gnome-applets from hardy (2.22.1-0ubuntu2), after added the Keyboard Accessibility Status applet and clicked on it, an error is throw "There was an error launching the keyboard preferences dialogue, etc".
- test with gnome-applets from proposed (2.22.2-0ubuntu1), after added the applet and click on it, the Accessibility Keyboard Preferences are shown, there's no error message, the bug is fixed, thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates and intrepid.