Arrow for indicating lenses points empty space on alt+F2

Bug #998752 reported by Grzegorz G.
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Low
Nicolas d'Offay
5.0
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Nicolas d'Offay
Precise
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

[Test Case]
1. Press Alt+F2 to enter the 'Execute Command' prompt
   -> Verify that there is no arrow pointing anywhere on the 'Execute Command' screen.

[Regression Potential]
No regression potential.

Original description:

As in title. See the attachment. It just looks weird. Arrows are for pointing something. Maybe in this case it shouldn't appear?

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Grzegorz G. (grzesiek1e5) wrote :
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Indeed, the arrow should not appear.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Omer Akram (om26er)
tags: added: bitesize
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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

Which unity version did this happen with? Is this still an issue? Because those arrows seem to be just fine in recent Unity releases for both Precise and Quantal.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

@bilal try pressing alt-f2 ;-)

it started during 12.04 development and have existed since then.

Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Nicolas d'Offay (nicolas-doffay)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Nicolas d'Offay (nicolas-doffay)
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 6.2
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

once this gets committed to trunk then we can change the status :-)

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
Changed in unity:
milestone: 6.2 → 6.4
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.4.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (6.4.0-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Software Center add to launcher icon animation is delayed when the
      launcher is in auto-hide mode (LP: #1012896)
    - Home lens: Applications show up in Music category (LP: #1040101)
    - WARN unity.hud.hud Hud.cpp:185 Attempted to close the hud connection
      without starting it (LP: #1039451)
    - Text field textures do not update when maximum width changes.
      (LP: #1037187)
    - An application is closed if manually removed from favorites on gsettings
      (LP: #1032157)
    - The switcher (Alt+Tab) is showing incorrect windows after using Deskop
      Wall (Ctrl+alt+<direction>) (LP: #1031959)
    - Dragging icons to reorder -away from launcher causes the dragged icon
      image edges to fade away(cut off) (LP: #1026247)
    - Screen flickers when changing launcher icon size. (LP: #1024113)
    - Arrow for indicating lenses points empty space on alt+F2 (LP: #998752)
    - [previews] Music album tracks do not have a scroll-bar when needed.
      (LP: #1039462)
    - [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] With unity scrollbar support enabled, hotplugging
      monitors doesn't work (LP: #1039410)
    - [previews] Track titles aren't escaped (LP: #1039020)
    - Launcher - Edge of tiles (with backlight disabled) is too opaque
      (LP: #1038138)
    - [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] Benchmark window appears behind the Unity shell
      now (LP: #1036609)
    - [GLES] [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] Unity shell (Launcher and Panel) are
      missing if framebuffer_object is disabled (LP: #1036569)
    - [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] Benchmark window is mostly invisible, shrunken
      and displaced (LP: #1036528)
    - Unity quicklist menu items leak memory (LP: #1036338)
    - Icon resized between 32 - 48 - 64 look jaggy (LP: #1036231)
    - [Regression] Hideous low-res icon when using the HUD with autohide
      enabled. (LP: #1035951)
    - [regression] Selecting an item of the BFB quicklist when the dash is
      open, causes it to hide (LP: #1035641)
    - Launcher - Switch on "backlight toggles" mode by default (LP: #1033866)
    - Unity spends 15% of time in PlacesGroup::ComputeContentSize when opening
      dash (LP: #1033306)
    - Launcher dragged icon is not redrawn when the mouse pointer is not moved
      (LP: #1032700)
    - Bottom - Up key navigation is broken in dash filterbar (LP: #1028810)
    - Launcher - SD card can not be ejected by drag-n-dropping to trash
      (LP: #960910)
    - Alt-tab - The app name in the integrated menu should not change during
      Alt-tab switching (LP: #950782)
    - Dash - If only one Category Header is displayed, it should be
      automatically expanded (LP: #950710)
    - Launcher - Unity mouse wheel scroll too small (LP: #906072)
    - boot moves desktop icons (LP: #886667)
    - Alt-tab - Reduce the spread delay for all items other than the initial
      item the select lands on after alt-tab opens (LP: #838232)
    - Launcher - Launcher should never autohide when the cursor is positioned
      over the Launcher (e.g. When ...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
description: updated
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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Grzegorz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/5.16.0-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
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jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

The behavior is now fixed.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.16.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (5.16.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * debian/control:
    - Update libgeis-dev and libgrail-dev dependencies in debian/control
  * New upstream release.
    - launcher is not refreshed after user session switch (LP: #1016430)
    - Dragging windows around is slow/sluggish/laggy when multiple monitors
      are enabled (LP: #874619)
    - Dragging icons to reorder -away from launcher causes the dragged icon
      image edges to fade away(cut off) (LP: #1026247)
    - Arrow for indicating lenses points empty space on alt+F2 (LP: #998752)
    - Tooltips backgrounds are not refreshed (no active blur) (LP: #967112)
    - [regression] Unity panel transparency (active blur) not updating properly
      (LP: #865006)
    - [Regression] Hideous low-res icon when using the HUD with autohide
      enabled. (LP: #1035951)
    - Launcher dragged icon is not redrawn when the mouse pointer is not moved
      (LP: #1032700)
    - Black background around after dash is restored (LP: #992516)
    - Refreshing active blur makes the dash painfully slow (LP: #874230)
    - [SRU regression] alt-grave not switching to next window unless 'grave'
      pressed twice (LP: #1035668)
    - [SRU Regression] Unity 5.14 + Nux 2.14: Launcher tooltips are
      incomplete/missing (LP: #1034164)
    - [nvidia] unity crashed in
      nux::GraphicsEngine::QRP_GLSL_1Tex (glDrawArrays) (LP: #1031554)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
      unity::ui::EdgeBarrierController::Impl::OnPointerBarrierEvent()
      (LP: #1020075)
    - Much slower OpenGL frame rates with unityshell loaded, than plain compiz
      (LP: #988079)
    - Compiz won't start if "unredirect fullscreen windows" is enabled
      (LP: #980663)
    - [regression] Unity launcher on-screen corruption on resume from suspend
      with nVidia proprietary driver (LP: #915265)
    - Desktop, Launcher and menu bar still visible when screen locked
      (LP: #886605)
    - Unity is visible on top of fullscreen apps (LP: #734908)
    - [nvidia] compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
      nux::BasePainter::PaintBackground (LP: #982626)
    - Update dependency on the renamed libgeis

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on latest nux as libgeis-dev and libutouch-geis-dev are
      conflicting (LP: #1047385)
 -- Lukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:53:17 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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