muon-updater should show binary package name somewhere

[Scott Kitterman]

I understand (and agree with) why Muon Updater hides binary package names by default and uses the short description instead, but it would be nice if they were around somewhere either in the main U/I or with the changelog. See the attached screen shot. I was trying to figure out which package was called "Support modules for KPackageKit" and it took some detective work to get to it.

I could see either changing the main U/I to binary name - short description or including the package name with the changelog snippets.

BTW, the update-notifier-kde bug has been fixed in bzr.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: muon-updater 1.3.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 18 10:09:09 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: muon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (8 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This behavior has changed with Muon 1.4, and non-application items show the technical package name.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What about applications? I understand the theory about not showing it for
'normal' users, but one ought to be able to find it.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

How about just having a setting?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I'm agnostic on mechanism, I'd just like to be able to find it.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

My reasoning was that people who cared about the package name for things like applications would probably be running the Muon Package Manager to manually run updates anyway.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Just because someone likes to know what the update entails does not mean they would discard the convenience of having an update notification. To get back to my setting... how about having a setting which app is to be used? i.e. you'd always have the notification but based on the setting either muon or -updater would be started to conduct the update. That way you'd also avoid getting into a philosophical discussion about where to draw the line of having tech details accessible as it is all right there in muon anyway.