[wishlist] Package updates require too many clicks

[Lari Natri]

This is really a wishlist item, not a grave bug. Hopefully this is the right place for reporting it.

Currently upgrading packages from the Kubuntu desktop is too long a process, requiring, in my opinion, too many clicks in different and unintuitive places.

The current process goes as follows. The "upgraded packages available" icon appears on the system tray. Clicking it opens the plasmoid, which has the button labeled "Update" on it. One might think that clicking it would start the upgrade, but it only starts the application Discovery, which is started but remains minimized on the task bar. After clicking the task bar entry, the application opens and on its window one can find "Update all" button, which opens the authentication dialog. After providing credentials, the upgrade is finally started.

Perhaps the click course could be shortened. Minimal version would be that the upgrade would be started by just clicking the system tray entry once, which would immediately start the upgrade in Discovery and the authentication dialog would appear.

[Lari Natri (larva)]

This bug was fixed in later Plasma versions. Currently, In Kubuntu 19.04, the update process is a lot smoother and requires less clicks.