Bug 406141

Summary:	Details pane in update installer
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Scott Reeves <sreeves>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	forgotten_6nrEHqNpH8
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	Beta 3
Hardware:	Other
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
Whiteboard:	gnome-usability
Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Attachments:	Screesnhot of current dialog

Description Michael Monreal 2008-07-03 13:04:59 UTC

The details pane in the update installer has various problems:

* The description field's text is not wrapped, leading to a huge empty space on the bottom of that pane but also causes the dialog to have a horizontal scroll bar. The text should just wrap to make better use of the pane and prevent the need of a scrollbar.

* No ChangeLog: this is more serious. A user has no way to know what the new package fixes or what new feature is provided. Mostly for critical updates, it would be *very* helpful to have some changelog text available

* It would also be very helpful to be able to select all or none of the updates: say there are 50 updates but only 1 critical. You don't want to install the non-critical right away (expensive connection or small bandwidth for example). The only way to install the critical update is to MANUALLY untick ALL the other updates.

* sorting by type (critical/uncritical) would be helpful as well.

Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2008-07-03 13:05:25 UTC

Created attachment 225810 [details]
Screesnhot of current dialog

Comment 2 Forgotten User 6nrEHqNpH8 2008-07-10 22:10:07 UTC

I would also like a fix for the text wrapping. Here http://www.pastebin.ca/1068592 is an example of information which is difficult to read at present. Wrapping would be sensible both for user friendliness and general tidiness, but it looks from this example as if line breaks are getting lost somewhere in the data processing. I would be surprised if the original input were intended this way.

I will also add to the list of problems:

* the patch information should be displayed as soon as an item is selected - at present an extra click is required and I can see no other reason for selecting the entry (as opposed to changing its state by selecting the checkbox.)

Comment 3 Forgotten User 6nrEHqNpH8 2008-07-14 00:37:48 UTC

I see that with OpenSUSE 11.0 the patch information is in fact displayed as soon as an item is selected (my comment referred to 10.3) so my addition above is unnecessary.

Comment 4 Scott Reeves 2008-10-14 21:48:14 UTC

This is fixed for 11.1 in Beta3 (with some of these working in 11.0 latest update). The description field wraps and the window is sized better, we now only show patches for updates and the patches description (basically the changelog for the patch) is shown (11.0 with latest update), you can right click and select or unselect all (11.0 with latest update), and we now sort patches by type.