Comment 12 for bug 782953

Unfortunately I do not have a fix, I am just a power user not a developer. But the issue seems simple to me as I don't get the complexity of adding a condition: if one of the sources boxes has been ticked then gksudo apt-get update gets run when the close button is pressed.

or just as simple, add a button next to revert:"Update Changes" which also runs gksudo apt-get update.

The reason why I called this out is that this bug was logged 2 years ago, with multiple duplicates associated to it and not assigned to anyone.

This issue is trivial enough if you are comfortable with the command line. But for an OS thats supposed to easy and have the average user in mind, having them choose a software source and then trying to install an app from that source and not finding that app just because the sources were not downloaded is an extremely bad user experience.

Minor user issues like this (of which there are many) detract from the rest of the polish being done on Ubuntu. But the attitude of just letting them slip by and languish for years does not help the user's experience or Ubuntu/Canonical's image.

I take the time to log issues and chase them up and that's the level of help I can provide. But from this interaction I don't even see the point of logging user bugs anymore.