Anything is going on regarding this regression?
Today, I'm seeing two entries in the update list labelled Transitional
dummy package. Gee, I wonder what they do. Also, Command-line driven
interactive plotting program. X-package. So, which plotting program is
that?
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A vote from me to say: please show the names!
When update-manager pops up, the first thing I want to decide is: Is
this update going to do anything that I wouldn't want, e.g. change any
package versions that I'm currently relying on for my data analysis?
but the screen just says A lightweight
** Tags added: needs-design
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Update Manager Listing should NOT use descriptions
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The short description of many packages is too long to fit in the small window
of the update manager. As an example I attached a screenshot from today. As you
can see there, some Free implementation of the is updated multiple times.
The difference is just:
- Ope
- EGL
- EGL-A
- GL-A
and the
These days Update Manager displays only short descriptions of packages
to be upgraded - the only way I can find out the actual package names is
by looking in the Technical description area below. The
summary_before_name GSettings key apparently no longer has any effect.
That might be OK for
Nice idea and argumentation. It still needs screenshots to be
perceptually convinced. I find myself scanning alphabetical package
names instead of descriptions too, but I am on developer side. I suspect
users don't read them at all. For reading it would be good to have a
dedicated pane for details
I also agree that there is a little meaning in giving meaningless short
names to various hardcore lib* components. Users will still use detailed
descriptions to figure out what's this.
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Turns out this 'feature' is configurable in GConf.
Run gconf-editor and un-set the following:
/apps/update-manager/summary_before_name
That doesn't remove the bug, however, because there is no compelling
argument to be made for ever showing summaries before names. Doing so
only breaks every
Two examples of why this is bad UI behaviour:
1) The heading for the Google Chrome browser is 'The browser from
Google'. No actual reference to the name, and unnecessarily verbose.
2) The entry for subversion is 'Advanced Version Control System'. Again,
no name, and hopelessly imprecise. Worse,
Hello,
I fully agree with this demand, regression is still present in Natty.
It was a lot better and clear to have in first line, bold and big text
name of application which has updates available, and above in smaller
text the description, all was ranged in alphabetic order, it was very
quick to
Demonstration of why this is a bug:
http://scriptorum.imagicity.com/2010/12/07/ui-follies/
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Title:
Update Manager Listing should NOT use
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
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