menu items cannot be activated on tearoff menus

[Redraven]

Binary package hint: gimp

Gimp has a feature that let's you tear off menus that appear when you are right-clicking on the canvas. This is described here:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/menus.html#tear-off-menus

For Ubuntu 10.04 items under a tearoff menu will not be activated. Items in the sub-menu of a tear off menu will however be activated. In previous versions (of Ubuntu) this worked well.

Current workaround is simply to use item from the ordinary menu from the top. But this is loss of a documented functionality and also making it a bit more cumbersome to work with the Gimp.

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Package: Gimp 2.6.8-2ubuntu1.1
The same problem in both 64-bit and 32-bit Ubuntu distributions.
Also tested to build the Gimp 2.6.10 version from source, this did not work either.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
Package: gimp 2.6.8-2ubuntu1.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Redraven (redraven)]

apport information

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627511

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

upstream said it's a gtk+ issue, will re open the upstream task as well and assign it to gtk+ reassigning this one for now.

[nephilim (torsten-wolf)]

After upgrading from 10.04 I see this bug still being present in 10.10.

[Igor Wojnicki (wojnicki)]

I confirm that. It's still present in 10.10.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:43 PM, nephilim <email address hidden> wrote:
> After upgrading from 10.04 I see this bug still being present in 10.10.
>
> --
> menu items cannot be activated on tearoff menus
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619432
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> of the bug.
>

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Still present in Natty

[Tim Starling (tstarling)]

Also affects gvim, and presumably any other application that uses tearoff menus.

[PoGo (pogo-launchpad)]

The bug is still present in 13.04...