GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 621327
DBus call to set crosshairs colour for gs-mag sometimes fails
Last modified: 2010-06-23 20:49:54 UTC
Many of the colours chosen for crosshairs using Orca's magnifier preferences dialog work fine in terms of changing the colour of the crosshairs. For example, choosing red (#FF0000), blue (#0000FF), or yellow (#FFF300) results in red, blue, or yellow crosshairs. However, choosing green (#00FF00) results in magenta coloured crosshairs; and, choosing black (#000000) results in no visible crosshairs. Steps to reproduce (with GnomeShell running): 1. Start Orca 2. Choose the "Magnifier" tab 3. Click the "Preferences" button in its main window 4. Click the "Cross-hair color" button under "Cross-hair" 5. Choose green either using the colour wheel, or enter #00FF00 in the "Color name:" text field, or via H, S, V, or R, G, B; and click "OK". 6. The colour seen for the crosshairs is magenta.
Joseph: Is this really a blocker for GNOME 3.0 that definitely needs to be fixed for .0? If not please don't set "gnome target" but set "Target Milestone" instead.
(In reply to comment #1) > Joseph: Is this really a blocker for GNOME 3.0 that definitely needs to be > fixed for .0? If not please don't set "gnome target" but set "Target Milestone" > instead. Sorry, André. I didn't know the protocol. Resetting back to "blank".
It turns out this is a bug on the GnomeShell magnifier side of the bus. That is, the correct colour information was being passed, but not correctly handled by gs-mag. I filed a bug against and a patch for gs-mag: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622508
Thanks for the update Joseph! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 622508 ***