Michael Terry and myself may share initials, but I'm the one to blame for the design. ;-)
Containers get blamed for their contents. When we introduced Notify OSD, people reported bugs against it about apps that had always sent too many notifications. Gradually the apps were fixed. And when we introduced Ubuntu Software Center, people reported bugs against it about packages that had always been in the wrong category. Gradually the packages were fixed. Now with Software Updater, people complain about packages that have poor synopses. Yes, and they always did. The example of Bazaar is a particularly flagrant one: the name of the software is not "easy to use distributed version control system", and it is not "bzr" (though that is the terminal command), it is "Bazaar". <http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/> The package is just wrong. As long as package names can't contain spaces or capital letters, they often won't be the actual name of the software. The most practical place to put the actual name is in the synopsis, which is what Software Updater shows by default. I agree it would be nifty to have an optional column showing the package name, as well as an optional column showing the version number. These would probably be toggled from the View menu. ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180899 Title: Update list hides important details To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1180899/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
