Bug 294172

Summary:	Muon updater doesn't display package names.
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	lnxusr
Component:	Updates (interactive)	Assignee:	Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	greenrd, migrus123
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	1.4.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot showing example.

Description lnxusr 2012-02-15 18:46:07 UTC

Version:           0.2 (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

Muon updater doesn't display the names of the packages under 'System Updates'.  Today, for example, there are three updates available, the first one 'Tool to start and control remote sessions'.  OK, that's the short description of the package, what is the package name?

There is no setting I can find that can set Muon to display package names instead of or as well as the short discription.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Open Muon updater when a 'System Update' package update is available.

Actual Results:  
Only the packages sort description is listed, not the package name.

Expected Results:  
Package name is displayed.

OS: Linux (i686) release 3.0.0-16-generic-pae
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Thomas Tanghus 2012-03-28 06:31:39 UTC

Created attachment 69957 [details]
Screenshot showing example.

For the System Updates there's no way to know what is being updated.

Comment 2 Jonathan Thomas 2012-04-08 15:56:56 UTC

Git commit 112811cb23b2e2779b9d917bc86b03e10955d83f by Jonathan Thomas.
Committed on 08/04/2012 at 17:52.
Pushed by jmthomas into branch 'master'.

Show the package name as a technical package's name, and its short description as the comment.
This is necessary for displaying technical packages in the MSC, since sorting by short desc. takes 11 seconds on 50,000 packages.

With this change, I've also made all of the non-categorized app views (E.g. per-origin ones) display technical packages by default.
I'll probably also add a runtime toggle so that the "Provided by Kubuntu" entry doesn't become *totally* unnavigable if somebody doesn't care about technical packages.

As a side effect, the Muon Updater now shows the package name for the updates in the "System Updates" category.

CCMAIL:976071@bugs.launchpad.net
FIXED-IN:1.4.0

M  +1    -4    installer/ApplicationWindow.cpp
M  +3    -7    libmuon/Application.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/muon/112811cb23b2e2779b9d917bc86b03e10955d83f

Comment 3 Jonathan Thomas 2012-05-01 11:21:21 UTC

*** Bug 299145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 migrus123 2012-06-06 11:34:47 UTC

I built "1.4" from git just now, and it is now only showing the name and not the description for system updates. Was that intentional? Surely the description is also useful to users.

You also say this only applies to the "System Updates" category, what about the other categories? Does this mean I don't get to see the package name for a security update? An application?
Why not always show as columns: package name, description, version, size? Or have an option to select the columns to show.

The updater listing is also not sorted alphabetically within the category and the category order seems random too. Makes it harder to read the listing. But I guess that would be a separate bug.