Applet windows can be opened twice

[Ken McLean]

Applet windows can be opened twice. For instance:

System > Preferences > Display
then
System > Preferences > Display

opens two Display Preferences windows.

This is unhelpful. If you open a menu item, get distracted and do some other things, then open it again, it should find the already open applet window and bring it to the front.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

That's an interesting point. So selecting system dialogs like Display, Default Printer, Mouse, Keyboard, Appearance from the menu would focus the already open window?

[Ken McLean (kenmclean)]

Precisely

[Vish (vish)]

This happens to some menu items. Synaptic isnt one of them. But this shouldnt happen.

@Ken McLean: Could you provide a list of all the other menu items which have the same behavior.

[Vish (vish)]

Marking this as incomplete as this bug doesnt have a list of apps which open twice.

[Ken McLean (kenmclean)]

List of applets that open twice in Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop:

** PREFERENCES **
About Me
Appearance
Assistive Technologies
Database Access Properties
Default Printer
Display
Encryption and Keyrings
File Management
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Multimedia Systems Selector
Network Proxy
Onboard
Onboard Settings
Palm OS Devices
Popup Notifications
Power Management
Preferred Applications
Qt4 Settings
Removable Drives and Media
SCIM Input Method Setup
Screensaver
Search and Indexing
Sound
Startup Applications
Volume Control
Windows

** ADMINISTRATION **
Computer Janitor
Hardware Drivers
Language Support
Log File Viewer
Login Window
Network Tools
Printing
Services
Software Sources
System Testing (causes a popup error which requires mouse click to cancel second instantiation. This should not even occur. It should just not open in the first place)
Time and Date
USB Startup Disk Creator
Users and Groups

So as you can see, only half a dozen applets actually stopped itself from opening twice, and some of these better than others. Some (like Network) were flawless. Some caused a second 'Starting [application]' task bar window to appear and hang, before reverting to the primary window. Either way it is very inconsistent across the operating system.

[Vish (vish)]

The list of affected is too huge to be dealt with in the papercuts project.

Changing it to Ayatana where this could be given proper attention required.

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Bug is being moved...

[Vish (vish)]

Won't Fix in papercuts , but is tagged "ayatana" to be overseen in The Ayatana project

[Ken McLean (kenmclean)]

I don't mean to be precious, but this needs to be allocated to a project. I don't know enough about ubuntu components to assign it myself. Who can I ask that would know?

[Vish (vish)]

@Ken McLean:
You are right , initially there was "ayatana" for this but, at present, there is no such project. We need to start a project for such big tasks.

All the bugs which were assigned to ayatana were lost in a black hole and were *not* even accessible to regular users , since the project ayatana was closed and re-opened in a different name & with a different purpose.

And members ,such as yourself, have put effort into reporting these bugs with all the information necessary.

So I'v had to discuss with the LP admins[only they had access to such lost bugs] and had such bugs reopened by
** Project changed: dead-ayatana => hundredpapercuts
This was to make sure that these bugs are not lost forever.

And the status "Wont fix" is for my reference, to get back to them later. I didnt want to explain this in every bug affected by this ;p
 Hope that made some sense to you ? Kindly be patient :)

@Mpt , any suggestions ? you know where to find me ;)

[Ken McLean (kenmclean)]

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for all your hard work.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Tanks in advance.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

[Ken McLean (kenmclean)]

@fabiomarconi I have tested with the latest Lucid packages.

List of applets that open twice in Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (updated packages to 2010-08-08):

** PREFERENCES **
Appearance
Assistive Technologies
IBus Preferences
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Monitors
Mouse
Network Proxy
Palm OS Devices
Preferred Applications
Remote Desktop
Screensaver
Search and Indexing
Startup Applications
Windows

** ADMINISTRATION **
Computer Janitor
Hardware Drivers
Language Support
Log File Viewer
Login Screen
Network Tools
Printing
Software Sources
Startup Disk Creator
System Testing (causes a popup error which requires mouse click to cancel second instantiation. This should not even occur. It should just not open in the first place)
Time and Date
Users and Groups

As you can see, only a few were fixed.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thanks for the reply.
in accord with reporter's reply and assignation policies I mark as confirmed and assign to gnome-desktop-manager and lay tagged Ayatana.
:)Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

assigned to meta-gnome2

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated & inactive report
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases