[Bug 1879183] [NEW] Cheese does not show preferences/options/menus to non-GNOME Users

Launchpad Bug Tracker 1879183 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sun Sep 20 04:23:58 UTC 2020


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[Impact] 
Cheese no longer displays its menu button on non-GNOME desktop environments.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/62

Xubuntu uses cheese as its default camera program. Advanced users can
still change these settings through dconf-editor, but this is neither
convenient nor intuitive.

[Test Case]

Use the cheese program in Xubuntu/xfce, Kubuntu/KDE or other non-GNOME
desktop environments. Notice missing menu in titlebar.

[Regression Potential]

The most likely regression would be if the patch disabled the menu in
GNOME. Testing has not shown this to be an issue.


[ORIGINAL REPORT]
Cheese has removed the GUI method of accessing preferences for non-GNOME users.
https://github.com/GNOME/cheese/commit/48882da6a6dc4fc1c19e15f5210c9e10feb67ff5#diff-b2b45275b16940829b5f6f068943108d

I'm not sure if upstream cheese devs care enough to fix it:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/62
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52

Should Xubuntu default to a different camera program, such as guvcview?

(Partial?) WORKAROUND is to use dconf-editor:
dconf-editor /org/gnome/cheese

** Affects: cheese (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: cheese (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal groovy patch verification-needed-focal
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Cheese  does not show preferences/options/menus to non-GNOME Users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1879183
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