According to discussion with people from BugControl Team, I set the importance of this bug to low and the package to yelp
** Changed in: yelp (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => yelp Importance: Undecided => Low ** Description changed: When the F1 key is pressed for a period of about 5 seconds it will spawn a huge number of 'Help' windows. It will spawn so many of these that it actually brought my system to its knees and I had to force reboot it. It would be nice if this would be somehow limited (like one Help window every 0.5 seconds). Now, I don't say Ubuntu should be catproof (it was my cat who pressed the F1 button) but I think it should be foolproof. Perhaps on lower end machines the Help window doesn't spawn immediately so the user presses the key again and again only resulting in a slower and slower machine. - Of course this is a very minor bug (some would probably argue it's not - even a bug! :) and therefore it's just a nice-to-have. + A fix for this bug would be to find a way to make the help applications + check to see if the user already had a help window open for the + requested call, and just push to the front of the window stack rather + than launching. -- Holding F1 key brings system to its knees https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for yelp in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
