Comment 12 for bug 655998

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote :

As I mention in my duplicate bug #1733776, the Debian policy hints against this design choice:

From https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#the-single-line-synopsis:
> Do not include the package name in the synopsis line. The display software knows how to display this already...

As for the related gsetting, it's true by default, but even one sets it to false, it doesn't respect it:
$ gsettings get com.ubuntu.update-manager summary-before-name
false

So at least that part is a BUG, update-manager doesn't do what it claims in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.ubuntu.update-manager.gschema.xml:

    <key name="summary-before-name" type="b">
      <default>true</default>
      <summary>Show package summary before package name in update list</summary>
      <description>If this key is set, the main update list window will show the package summary before the package name.</description>
    </key>