message about expert mode should be displayed with search results
Bug #1384117 reported by
Taleman
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lubuntu-software-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Expert Mode makes a lot of sense for novice users. It keeps them from finding an enormous list of spurious packages that don't relate to what are likely their general needs.
However, it is not obvious that Expert Mode even exists, especially with the option being hidden in preferences. The most reasonable place to draw attention to it is when searching for packages.
If a message about Expert Mode was included in the search results, this should draw everyone's attention if they don't find what they're looking for.
Think about Gmail. This is how they deal with deleted/spam messages. They are not shown in the search, but an option to look at them exists at the bottom.
Changed in lubuntu-software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
summary: |
- Search does not find mariadb + with no result search, message about expert mode should be displayed |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- with no result search, message about expert mode should be displayed + message about expert mode should be displayed with search results |
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I checked in Ubuntu 14.04. There software-center hides search result for mariadb in the lower left corner in "Show technical items".
I have told users to go to Software Center to install stuff. Usually that works, but now with MariaDB I had to go install it myself because users could not find the package to install with Software Center.
root@bertram-U:~# lsb_release -rd fi.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages dpkg/status fi.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
root@bertram-U:~# apt-cache policy software-center
software-center:
Asennettu: 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
Ehdokas: 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
Versiotaulukko:
*** 13.10-0ubuntu4.1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
13.10-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://
root@bertram-U:~#