Synaptic's 'Mark all upgrades' button is active even when there are no upgradable packages

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

"Mark all upgrades" button in Synaptic is clickable even when there are no upgradable packages. First of all, it's confusing. Secondly, clicking it clears all other markings (see bug #50837).

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Confirming this bug on 10.10

[Joseph Wen (wenjoseph)]

I am trying to fix this bug and have some problem. Won't it be confusing to the user if sometimes "Mark all upgrades" is clickable but sometimes it is not. Should we add some information to indicate why it is not clickable?

[Vish (vish)]

Joseph Wen : Not necessary. take for example of the Gedit undo/redo functions. Those buttons are "available"(clickable) only when there is something to undo or redo. When there is no action they are inactive/insensitive.

So just making the button insensitive when there is no upgrade to perform should be good enough.

[Sn0w17 (sn0w17)]

Did this ever get fixed?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

No, it's not fixed yet, and it probably won't get fixed for the Precise release. I will try to take care of this in the next cycle.

[Giacomo Picchiarelli (gpicchiarelli-deactivatedaccount)]

I'll try to fix this.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

@Giacomo Picchiarelli: Nice to hear that. If you need any help, are stuck, or anything, let us know, and keep us informed on the progress!