Well then.
A bug report of the form "X should be easier" is not, usually, a valid
bug report. A bug report of the form "X is harder than it could be",
with measurements or even usability heuristics to demonstrate that the
current design is N% harder to use than some alternative design Y, would
be useful. But we don't have that here. In the absence of anything like
that, it's fairly obvious that a design requiring 3 actions to install 3
items ("Install", "Install", "Install") is both more learnable and more
efficient than a design requiring 4 actions to install 3 items
("Install", "Install", "Install", "Begin").
guilloip has a good point that sometimes USC is not quite as responsive
as it could be when installing or removing stuff in the background,
sometimes screens move about when a task has completed, and we're quite
forgetful about what you asked to do when Ubuntu was offline. But those
are not problems that need to be fixed by changing USC's entire
interaction model. They can be fixed by better threading, scheduling,
and persistence. Please report separate bugs on individual problems of
that sort.
Meanwhile, the first part of this bug report is fixed in Maverick: there
is a screen for completed installations ("History" > "Installations"),
and a screen for completed uninstallations ("History" > "Removals"), as
well as the screen for applications pending ("In Progress"). You can
also, if you really want to, set up a queue of items to install all at
once: for example, enter "webservice-office-zoho,abcde,midori" (without
quotes) in the "Get Software" search field, and you'll get a list with
an "Install _ Items" link at the bottom. If that still doesn't suit you,
try Synaptic.
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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(Un)installing multiple applications with Ubuntu Software Center should be
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478063
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