Bug#606242: Issue-report: Debian-squeeze-di-Beta2-i386-DVD-1. USB+PS/2 mouse and wonky install screen 'CONTINUE' button icon.
Bug#606242.
I reproduced on debian-squeeze-di-beta2-i386 New install,
�the Wonky 'Install screen [CONTINUE] button icon', issue.
First a quick conjecture. I wonder if a mouse button action is a 'two state' trigger ?
1.) Button pressed, and 2.) button released.
Are these actually really sticky hardware buttons on the multiple mice maybe ?
1.) Greyed out for button pressed, and 2.)'Programme action' when button realeased. Just a thought.
I could try to multiple press and click of the left button, without moving the mouse in the plain.
2010.12.10. I noticed this MINOR issue again, this time on Debian squeeze di Beta2 (Beta 2) (Beta-2)
at the Partition Disks: Partition Settings: screen.
Though the issue symptom may have occured earlier. I do not really know. I will keep looking.
After setting up a raid1 mirroring array with 3 raid partitions on two hard disks,
my last action was setting up the /boot partition on the array when I experienced the 'freeze'.
Selecting the task 'Finish partitioning and write changes to disk' I went to press [CONTINUE]
My [CONTINUE] button icon, on my install screen, has this issue of having a 'Two Trigger' attribute.
Using a different mouse this time. Not the USB optical mouse I originally used.
This time I am using, for fault finding, an original IBM PS/2 mouse, part number IBM 6450350.
Left button click and the [CONTINUE] button icon on the screen GREYs out. Good. OK.
I can then leave the mouse untouched for as long as I like, without any other programme reaction. Frozen.
The [CONTINUE] button screen icon remains 'greyed out', without any programme action that I selected.
I then eventually moved the mouse in the horizontal plane slightly and the programme reacts to the [continue]
button icon being pressed, and the task completes OK. Next time, I should try the vertical plane.
I selected the [GO BACK] screen icon button and followed up reproducing the symptom issue with the [continue] button icon.
After selecting 'Finish partitioning' yet again and going to the 'Write changes to the disk' again, I could NOT reproduce the 'Two Trigger' issue on the [continue] icon button. The icon button worked OK, UNTIL I reached the 'Software selection' screen.
I went to accept the default software selection GDE and SSU.
I pressed the left button with the cursor on [CONTINUE] and the issue returned.
On purpose, I placed the tip of the 'cursor arrow pointer' on the coordinates; X: The gap Horizontally, Halfway between the left hand vertical side of the [continue] screen icon button's box frame, and it's letter 'C' the first letter in [continue],
and... the Y: coordinate, Vertically halfway up or down the [continue] icon box frame.
I now have to correct my earlier description in my first posting.
On purpose, I did NOT move the cursor outside the box frame of the [continue] icon.
Eventually, I moved the mouse the tinyest amount I could, lets say one millimetre.
While still well inside the icons box framework, the programme action was triggered OK, whilst the cursor pointer was still inside the icon. I wrongly said previously, that I had to move the cursor outside the icons boundaries for some programme action.
Having reproduced the symptom of this MINOR issue to this degree, I now feel a total pedant.
Pragmatically, I can live with this particular issue.
Best of luck, I wish you all well. Thank you for all the GREAT software, everybody involved.
I really do appreciate Debian, et al, your efforts and your support, In the past and in the future.
Happy holidays. 2010.12.17. Regards, McTech.
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