Comment 7 for bug 655998

These days Update Manager displays only short descriptions of packages to be upgraded - the only way I can find out the actual package names is by looking in the "Technical description" area below. The summary_before_name GSettings key apparently no longer has any effect.

That might be OK for casual users (although Graham gives a good argument above that these descriptions aren't terribly useful for them either). But a serious user would really like to see the actual package names. I think there should be a preference, command-line parameter or GSettings key which causes Update Manager to show actual package names in the main list (possibly with descriptions too).