[Bug 1576191] [NEW] dialog popped up by release upgrader can be accidentally dismissed too easily

[Jonathan Kamens]

Public bug reported:

I was working doing other things on my computer while the upgrade to
Xenial was running. At some point, the upgrade popped up a big squarish
dialog; I'm not sure what it said in it exactly, but I saw that it was a
grey frame enclosing a scrolling white textbox, and that the word
"obsolete" was displayed prominently somewhere in it.

Unfortunately, it popped up and grabbed focus just as I was hitting
Enter in the other program I was working in, and as a result, the dialog
was dismissed accidentally by me a fraction of a second after it popped
up, before I could read what was in it.

The release upgrader should use one of the strategies that other apps of
this sort use to prevent this kind of thing from happening: either (a)
don't allow the "OK" button in this dialog to be clicked for a few
seconds after it pops up, or (b) don't focus on the "OK" button in this
dialog by default, i.e., make the user tab to it or click on it to
dismiss it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk 1:16.04.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 28 08:32:21 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (103 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-28 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade xenial

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Title:
  dialog popped up by release upgrader can be accidentally dismissed too
  easily

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was working doing other things on my computer while the upgrade to
  Xenial was running. At some point, the upgrade popped up a big
  squarish dialog; I'm not sure what it said in it exactly, but I saw
  that it was a grey frame enclosing a scrolling white textbox, and that
  the word "obsolete" was displayed prominently somewhere in it.

  Unfortunately, it popped up and grabbed focus just as I was hitting
  Enter in the other program I was working in, and as a result, the
  dialog was dismissed accidentally by me a fraction of a second after
  it popped up, before I could read what was in it.

  The release upgrader should use one of the strategies that other apps
  of this sort use to prevent this kind of thing from happening: either
  (a) don't allow the "OK" button in this dialog to be clicked for a few
  seconds after it pops up, or (b) don't focus on the "OK" button in
  this dialog by default, i.e., make the user tab to it or click on it
  to dismiss it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk 1:16.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 28 08:32:21 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (103 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-28 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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