Text is misleading in Universal Access settings panel

Bug #882856 reported by Greg Merchan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
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Bug Description

On the Pointing and Clicking page of the Universal Access settings panel there is a toggle for a "Simulated Secondary Click". By conventional American English, a "secondary" click would perhaps be the second click of a double-click, but really it just doesn't make any sense. What is meant is a click of the second button on a pointing device, or what is most commonly known as a "right-click". If the word "secondary" must be kept, it would be better to say "secondary button click".

The effect described in the text does not match what happens. It says, "Trigger a secondary click by holding down the primary button". When this is enabled, the effect is that the right-click happens when the button is released, not when it is held down. The text should perhaps read "Trigger a right-click by holding down then after a delay releasing the primary button."

Perhaps the text is correct and the behavior is not?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

needs to be reported upstream if it's still an issue

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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