[Bug 1273752] Re: Can't Copy Crash Report Details to Clipboard

[mgsloan]

Agreed that this should really be resolved.  It is particularly
problematic for packages that are not in ubuntu repos - when submitting
bug reports to 3rd parties.

It would also be far easier to check if the report is leaking any
secrets if you could easily open it in a text editor and use ctrl+f.  I
suppose that wouldn't handle the coredump bits, but eh.

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Title:
  Can't Copy Crash Report Details to Clipboard

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Often times, after receiving a crash report, if I click the "Continue"
  button it doesn't launch the browser for me to submit my crash to
  launchpad.net.

  Because of this, I'd always like to copy the crash report to my
  clipboard before clicking the continue button, so that I can manually
  provide this information into a bug report to launchpad.net.

  However, this option is not available.

  More over, there is absolutely *no way* to copy any text from this
  crash report's dialog window!

  1) You cannot ctrl-a to select all.
  2) Ctrl-c doesn't copy anything
  3) Right-clicking doesn't produce a context menu where you can select "Copy".

  This is an unfinished design. You should always give the user the
  ability to copy any text displayed in the UI.

  Next to the "Show/Hide details" button, I suggest adding a "Copy to
  Clipboard" button. If not this, please offer some way to achieve this
  from the GUI.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: apport-gtk 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportLog:

  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Jan 28 10:21:00 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-07 (113 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-08 (19 days ago)

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