Bug#573064: vlc: confusing dialog box for unrecognized input format has overlapped key shortcuts in en_US
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Mar 8 16:25:05 UTC 2010
Package: vlc
Version: 1.0.4-2+b1
Severity: normal
if i try to open a format that VLC doesn't recognize, i get a dialog
box explaining the problem, saying something like:
VLC can't recognize the input format:
The format of 'foo.whatever' cannot be detected. Have a look at the
log for details
it then has two buttons, Close and Clear (see attached screenshot).
Not only am i confused as to what these two options are, they are both
bound to the same short-cut key (C), so i can't easily trigger them
from the keyboard.
vlc's usability would be improved by cleaning up this dialog box.
Thanks for keeping vlc in good shape in debian!
--dkg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages vlc depends on:
ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.7-4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.3-4 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.10-2+b1 image loading library for Simple D
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-5 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtar 1.2.11-6 C library for manipulating tar arc
ii libvlccore2 1.0.4-2+b1 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding
ii libxcb1 1.5-2 X C Binding
ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxv1 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.30-2 Vera font family derivate with add
ii vlc-nox 1.0.4-2+b1 multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages vlc recommends:
ii vlc-plugin-pulse 1.0.4-2+b1 PulseAudio plugin for VLC
Versions of packages vlc suggests:
pn mozilla-plugin-vlc <none> (no description available)
pn videolan-doc <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on:
ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-13 library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libass4 0.9.8-1 library for SSA/ASS subtitles rend
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-3 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-3 Avahi common library
ii libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b2 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi
ii libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090706-6 ffmpeg codec library
ii libavformat52 4:0.5+svn20090706-6 ffmpeg file format library
ii libavutil49 4:0.5+svn20090706-6 ffmpeg utility library
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcaca0 0.99.beta17-1 colour ASCII art library
ii libcddb2 1.2.1-1 library to access CDDB data - runt
ii libcdio10 0.81-4 library to read and control CD-ROM
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdca0 0.0.5-3 decoding library for DTS Coherent
ii libdvbpsi5 0.1.6-1 library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI ta
ii libdvdnav4 4.1.3-6 DVD navigation library
ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-8 library for reading DVDs
ii libebml0 0.7.7-3.1 access library for the EBML format
ii libfaad2 2.7-4 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder -
ii libflac8 1.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an
ii libhal1 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control support -
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-5 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-5 MPEG audio decoder library
ii libmatroska0 0.8.1-1.1 extensible open standard audio/vid
ii libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.7-1 shared libraries for mod music bas
ii libmpcdec6 2:0.1~r453-1 MusePack decoder - library
ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.1-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libogg0 1.1.4~dfsg-2 Ogg bitstream library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpostproc51 4:0.5+svn20090706-6 ffmpeg video postprocessing librar
ii libraw1394-11 2.0.5-1 library for direct access to IEEE
ii libschroedinger-1.0- 1.0.8-2 library for encoding/decoding of D
ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming
ii libsmbclient 2:3.4.5~dfsg-2 shared library for communication w
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libswscale0 4:0.5+svn20090706-6 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii libsysfs2 2.1.0-6 interface library to sysfs
ii libtag1c2a 1.6.1-1 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii libtheora0 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3 The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii libtwolame0 0.3.12-1 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar
ii libudev0 151-2 libudev shared library
ii libupnp3 1:1.6.6-3 Portable SDK for UPnP Devices (sha
ii libv4l-0 0.6.4-1 Collection of video4linux support
ii libvcdinfo0 0.7.23-4+b2 library to extract information fro
ii libvlc2 1.0.4-2+b1 multimedia player and streamer lib
ii libvlccore2 1.0.4-2+b1 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libvorbis0a 1.2.3-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.3-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages libvlc2 depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libvlccore2 1.0.4-2+b1 base library for VLC and its modul
Versions of packages vlc is related to:
pn libavutil50 <none> (no description available)
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