Cannot Highlight or Copy text from Software-Center

Bug #1348991 reported by Lonnie Lee Best
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software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

This bug has been reported and fixed in a prior version of Ubuntu, but I'm submitting a new bug because it is not fix in Ubuntu 14.04.

You cannot highlight or copy any text (such as package-names) from the Ubuntu Software Center.

When I do not know the name of a package, I often user Software Center to discover what the package name is. What a let down it is when I can't copy the text I'm looking for once I've found it. I'm a big fan of copy and paste to avoid mis-types, and in an open source desktop/OS I expect all text to be "copy-able".

This feature is broken again 14.04.

In addition to fixing this again, some thought should be given to how it can be fixed in a manner that ends this cycle of:
" report > fix > break > report > fix > break again".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: software-center 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Jul 26 15:10:54 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-28 (88 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :
Ralph (ird-ocean)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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