Comment 18 for bug 513460

I might be going too far but I do believe this bug affects all Debian- or Ubuntu-based distros that work with Synaptics. I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed on my machine along with Win7 where I have Lubuntu (forgot which version but let's assume it's the latest one) and Debian 6 (latest stable and up-to-date) running as VMs in VirtualBox. This problem is present like forever. I actually can't remember if it worked at all at some point in the past. This feature is very practical and I know you can do this via the terminal but it'll be nice to open just one window and manage all the packages and package-relevant activities there instead of switching from one window to another.