Dash: installed/not installed packages are conflated under "Applications": incredibly confusing
Bug #733669 reported by
Jeff Lane
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Fix Released
|
High
|
John Lea | ||
Unity |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen | ||
Unity Foundations |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen | ||
unity-lens-applications |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
unity-place-applications (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
When looking for applications, I search for Terminal and lo and behold, there are THREE items that are simply named "Terminal" only one is the correct one, which one is it? This kind of ambiguous naming could be confusing for users. See attached screenshot.
Package: unity-place-
Ideally packages that are not installed should be visually separated. See comment #11 that it needs doing, but a solution probably needs designing first.
description: | updated |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Inclusion of uninstalled packages mixed in with installed packages when - using the application menu is incredibly confusing + Dash: installed/not installed packages are conflated under + "Applications": incredibly confusing |
description: | updated |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: needs-design |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → 3.6.8 |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
assignee: | nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → 0.2.42 |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity-foundations: | |
assignee: | nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → unity-3.6.8 |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in unity-foundations: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity-place-applications: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity-foundations: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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Thanks for reporting this. I agree it's confusing (especially since I don't recognise two of the Terminals' icons) so I'm going to mark it "confirmed".
How did you envision this being solved? Just adding the name of the executable (i.e. "gnome-terminal", "urxvt") beneath the "human-friendly" name would work, I think?