Hard to find many packages: unclear where "technical items" are hidden
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a usability issue.
I tried to install Xen using Ubuntu Software Center. First I searched for "xen" but didn't find the hypervisor. I tried a few options like "*xen*" and some others, but I only got xenwatch, xenlog and vnc-client among my search results. I gave up and used apt-get.
I later discovered:
1. Searching for "xen-" instead of just "xen" DOES show xen-hypervisor options. Explain that!?
2. There's a well hidden "Show XX technical items" at the bottom of the window.
This is bad usability. The "technical items" definition seems useless. Aren't xenwatch, xenlog and vnc-client technical items? What exactly is a "technical item"?
But if you insist on hiding packages like that, there should be a clearly visible meta-entry among the search results to show the rest of the entries.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-center 5.4.1.4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 4 16:29:15 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-25 (861 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
XDG_RUNTIME_
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-20 (74 days ago)
summary: |
- Unclear where "technical items" are hidden + Hard to find many packages: unclear where "technical items" are hidden |
tags: |
added: trusty removed: quantal |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.