Usability: provide a select/deselect all option
Bug #156199 reported by
Daniel O'Connor
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #329441: Select all and Unselect all options are not easily discoverable.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Software Updater |
Invalid
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Undecided
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Proposal:
Add a select/deselect control to the main package interface. Existing behavior, all packages selected, should be maintained.
Reasoning:
I'd rather install 15 packages separately if they are substantial downloads (more than 5 minutes) than wait for them to all go at once. In fact, I'd often want to only install 3 or 4 and ignore others until later.
If it had a 'select all/select none' toggle, I could easily clear the default select all, and life would be better.
Examples:
* TortoiseSVN's commit dialog is the perfect example of this behaviour
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
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To clarify, since lodging this I've discovered the context menu which contains the functionality. I had to look at the source code itself before I realized it existed.
I don't think the context menu options are suitably clear enough - they suggest direct manipulation of an individual entry rather than a mass action. They are also hard to discover.
Having a more visible control would solve this problem, and eliminate the need for the entire right click menu.