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Refreshes the whole window after installing/uninstalling a package

Asked by Industrial

Since synaptic is no longer installed by default (fine with me), I was using Software Center to uninstall packages from a clean 11.10 install that I do not want. It was around 15 packages.

I click on remove from one package, the second, third, continue browsing and by this time the first and second jobs complete their task. I'm still browsing through the list for other items and the whole screen refreshes with a spinner, closes all categories/arrows and actually reloads the whole window for every item in the queue (so three times) before I can do anything else. I think this is very weird usability wise.

I think it would be much better if there was no reloading at all, and if it would just remove the items that were removed from the list (with a collapse/rollup motion?). Losing your current progress means you have to go back to where you were and that gets frustrating after a few times.

I'm comparing this workflow with synaptic where I can just select the packages I want or don't and apply at the end.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Industrial (tom-wieland) said : 		#2

Wondering if my explanation is clean enough.

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#3

Sorry for late response.Why don´t you install synaptic (you will need it anyway).

sudo apt-get install synaptic

and from there remove packages you don´t want to have on your system.When I feel lasy I do updates from synaptic ( sometimes it is easier just do it with two clicks).

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Industrial (tom-wieland) said : 		#4

I'm not trying to get the problem of adding and removing those packages solved. I got that done before making this ticket.

I'm doubting the user interface of the application and hope to get some thoughts of the developers on what the best user interface design solution would be. In my opinion refreshing the whole screen is not the best thing.

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Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) said : 		#5

Hi Industrial. Indeed, it's a very annoying usability bug when the list refreshes while you are browsing and adding/removing packages at the same time. When this occurs it's actually a regression with the new UI in Oneiric, as the old UI was quite agreeable in this regards. Be assured that we do have plans to address this issue in Software Center for the Precise cycle. I will convert this question to a bug, and identify if it's a duplicate of an earlier bug on this issue. This way, we can track the fix in a single place.

Please track the bug and, if at all possible, add detailed steps to reproduce for the various places that you encounter this problem.

Thanks for your question/report/suggestion!

Best regards,
Gary

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Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) said : 		#6

I created bug 901876 for tracking this issue.

Thanks again!

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