"Show N technical items" doesn't look clickable

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

The "Show 72 technical items" at the bottom of the screen looks like a status bar, and not a button. It was only when a designer was looking over my shoulder and pointed out that it's clickable that I then clicked it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 14 13:26:51 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120203)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

it is indeed pretty common that people don't realise they can click on this - making it orange and underlining it will probably go quite a while although in the future i wouldn't mind getting rid of the technical/non-technical altogether

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This one is pretty confusing, e.g.
$ PYTHONPATH=. python softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/actionbar.py
and "set label" has the right label, there is a "<u>foo</u>" property at the right part of the label. And yet
its not displayed. Chaning it to '<span fgcolor="blue">%s</span>" works as expected.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Running the same command PYTHONPATH=. python softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/actionbar.py"" under 11.10 shows a valid underline.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is a small example how to reproduce this.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

While we are at it, we should use the '<a href="">text</a>" markup from Gtk.Label() in the actionbar code and remove the custom code that implements the same behavior (it was written when GtkLabel did not have this capability yet).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Not wanting to hijack that bug with the gtk (which turned to be a freetype) issue I opened bug #972223

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Thanks a lot, Seb! I see it is already fixed now in Precise (thanks kiwinote for pointing that out). :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 5.1.14.2

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software-center (5.1.14.2) precise; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/config-tweak:
    - cleanup concerning always having a 'general' section in the cfg file
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/pygi-properties-fixes:
    - properly initialize the properties in CellRendererAppView as required
      for pygi, fixes crash on network events (LP: #965937)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/lp977889:
    - fix the disappearing list view sort combobox (LP: #977889)

  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/recommends-more-button-lp971567:
    - correctly render 'more' button in recommendations panel (LP: #971567)
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/show-technical-items-lp955030:
    - make 'show n technical items' appear clickable again (LP: #955030)
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/fix-crash-lp969737:
    - fix an intermittent crash that can occur when saving the vertical
      position of the installed pane treeview on a cache refresh
      (LP: #969737)
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/fix-crash-lp970157:
    - Small fix for a crash that can happen during the installed view
      treeview initialization (LP: #970157)
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/fix-crash-lp968988:
    - Fix crash bug LP: #968988 by making sure that there is always
      a tree_view.selected_row_renderer
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/remember-sort-preference-lp966878:
    - Fix for bug LP: #966878 to not reset the user's sorting preference
      if they have set one

  [ Nekhelesh Ramananthan ]
  * lp:~nik90/software-center/add_keywords_new:
    - added keywords to the desktop file for better search criteria
      (LP: #977175)

  [ Sebastian Heinlein ]
  * lp:~glatzor/software-center/fix-977020:
    - fix software-center error dialogs for errors other than
      ERROR_INVALID_PACKAGE_FILE and ERROR_UNAUTHENTICATED_PACKAGE
      (LP: #977020)
    - Allow to repair an incomplete installation (partially fixes
      LP: #659438)

  [ Kiwinote ]
  * lp:~kiwinote/software-center/lp951557:
    - don't duplicate text on paste (LP: #951557)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:21:21 +0200

[Pavlo Verba (pavlo.s.verba)]

Was this fix made into an update yet? I am asking because it is November 2012 and I am still affected by this bug.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Paul, yes, Ubuntu 12.04 was released with USC 5.2, which includes this fix. If you are using USC 5.1.14.2 or later and the link doesn't look underlined for you, please report a separate bug. Thanks.