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Bug 671386 - Please notify user that magnifier is only effective under Gnome Shell
Please notify user that magnifier is only effective under Gnome Shell
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Universal Access
3.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-05 16:21 UTC by bsfmig
Modified: 2012-03-08 15:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description bsfmig 2012-03-05 16:21:40 UTC 
Gnome magnifier is now embedded into Gnome Shell, but many users are still being bound to Fallback mode, not to mention those using Ubuntu Unity.
Under such circumstances, the magnifier setting should notify the user that it won't work, instead of having users left confused attempting to switch it on and off while seeing nothing.
Comment 1 bsfmig 2012-03-05 16:22:44 UTC 
An Ubuntu bug goes as follows:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/945813
(magnification settings do not work on Ubuntu)
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2012-03-05 21:05:36 UTC 
I'm sure ubuntu can come up with a patch for this problem that they have caused for themselves...

What we should consider doing is simply disable all the zoom controls if the org.gnome.Shell name is not taken on the bus, or doesn't provide the org.gnome.Magnifier interface.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2012-03-08 15:17:47 UTC 
Fixed using D-Bus as Matthias mentioned in comment 2.