@Kulfy sorry it took so long to get back to you about this. I was participating in a charity dance event yesterday and I was tired after that. Until after lunch today I didn't feel energetic again haha
So, bug reports are considered to be off topic here
this was a controversial decision and I personally disagree with it to some extent, but it is established policy so we need to follow it
this policy is supposed to be applied with nuance
we don't want people to report bugs here because bugs should be reported on Launchpad so they can get fixed
I do agree with that, and with the policy that questions about bugs in beta versions should be off-topic
however, asking for a workaround for a bug should be on topic
many bugs are long lived. I have to hack around various bugs just to use Ubuntu. If I hadn't been able to find out how to do that on the internet, I wouldn't have been able to do it
So I think we should only close questions that are really intended as bug reports or are about problems with beta versions
or, questions that are unanswered for a while and are about things caused by a bug that was fixed can be closed with that reason, though arguably they can also be no-repro
in practice if a question is about some problem and it's a bug, then we just close it, because it's hard to apply this policy in a nuanced way
If you can explicitly say in the question you are looking for a workaround for the bug, the question might not get closed. This question somewhat divided opinions
You can always advise OP to ask on Unix & Linux. Questions about bugs are fine there.
So, the question is closed according to policy. I'll note that is has two deleted answers, which are both completely useless NAA answers. Bug report type questions do tend to attract those, which is a good reason for closing them
@Zanna That's indeed a very detailed explanation. Thank you for doing that. But I still have some doubts. Like all questions I've mentioned here revolve around a same bug but then why only 1 was closed as OT?
Honestly saying this sounds confusing to me. May be interpreting a question would take some more time on my side.
Zanna as you are good with comand line can you please explain what is significance of UBUNTU_MENUPROXY in env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=/path/to/some/executable/file?
I believe that's completely useless. Since when I execute that in terminal I get output when env is executed as a command and then value of UBUNTU_MENUPROXY which is being defined there.
the env command is used to run a command with a particular environment. So the command there sets UBUNTU_MENUPROXY only for this command. Often you don't need env because you can just define variables in the same line as the command you run with the syntax VAR=val command
