As an occasional synaptic user I want the "Find" dialog to default to "Look in: Description and Name" at program start, to be able to find a package I look for without irritation.
Bug #1280147 reported by
Karsten W. Rohrbach
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Not a bug, but usability.
Most of the time I use apt-get for package management.
Sometimes I use synaptic, especially when looking for packages, optional installs, desccriptions, screenshots, etc.
I use the find dialog (Ctrl-F) very often.
The find dialog saves the last used value of "Look in:" between sessions.
This is an annoyance, causing irritation very often.
It would be much more usable if the "Look in:" field would be initialized to "Description and Name" once, at program start.
| summary: |
As an occasional synaptic user I want the "Find" dialog to default to - "Look in: Description and Name", to be less irritated when looking for - packages and apparently not finding them, then seeing that the dialog - was set to "look in: Provided Packages" last time I used the program. + "Look in: Description and Name", to be able to find a package I look for + without irritation. |
| summary: |
As an occasional synaptic user I want the "Find" dialog to default to - "Look in: Description and Name", to be able to find a package I look for - without irritation. + "Look in: Description and Name" at program start, to be able to find a + package I look for without irritation. |
Revision history for this message
| Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
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I have to disagree. I like it the way it is because I often know the names of the package I want to find.
Synaptic stores the value in /root/.