Terminal window shouldn't respond to input by default
Bug #3718 reported by
Miguel Gaspar
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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synaptic |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
While installing packages, one may expand the dialog to reveal a terminal window. But the regular user wouldn't expect this to be a 'live' terminal, so he might do something with undesireable side-effects. It happened to me: I wanted to copy something so I selected the text and hit ctrl-c (that's the standard shortcut to copy in a graphical application), and to my surprise, the configuration of the package was terminated!
This terminal shouldn't receive input by default, and there hould be an option to do that. Or, there should be clear to the user that he could interact with it.
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in synaptic: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
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Michael, can we get notified if user input is required in the terminal? so we could "disable" the terminal during normal operation and only enable the terminal widget if it is required.
Furthermore I think that the terminal widgets looks like a normal terminal, so the user could expect that it also behaves like a normal terminal.
The terminal widget exists, since some packages still require user input during installation.