Bug 314970

Summary:	Usability regression from new applet: Update notes hard to get to
Product:	[Unmaintained] apper	Reporter:	Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	marc-schmitzer
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Kevin Kofler 2013-02-12 06:31:31 UTC

The new applet in Apper 0.8.0 does not give any easy way to get at the update notes: It does not seem to display them itself (it gives me only a list of package names, not even old vs. new version or arch), nor does it give me any one-click way to fire up the full Apper interface, which does display them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on "Review" in the update notification, or on the applet icon.
Actual Results:  
Insufficient information to actually review the updates.

Expected Results:  
A way to get at the update notes (other than having to dismiss the applet, fire up the real Apper and click on "updates" there).

Update notes can contain important information, hiding them that way is really unhelpful.

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2013-06-05 07:38:14 UTC

So actually the plasmoid does display the notes if you push on the (+) button which only shows on mouseover (which is not a very helpful UI, IMHO the button should always be visible), but it does NOT display some other information the full apper shows:
* Bugzilla references,
* link to the update in the update system's web interface,
* architecture of the package (x86_64 vs. noarch vs. i686).

Comment 2 Marc Schmitzer 2014-04-23 16:38:01 UTC

I second this. As a bare minimum, it should be possible to select text in the update notes so that links or bug ids can be copied. Of course, actual clickable links would be better :-)

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 01:00:04 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 18:22:45 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/system/apper

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.