Change of UI for Multiverse, Universe

Bug #1034263 reported by Bhaavan Merchant
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

In synaptic categories having a section for each category with a different section for Universe, multiverse and main is quite confusing. Universe / multiverse / main are actually filters rather than catgories. In any case if at all the should exist, it should be as subcategories and not different categories.

My personal sugeestion would be to have 3 checkboxes somewhere at the top / side top for Main, Universe, Multiverse, and then their values should be respected while performing a search or going to a category.

Alternatively, the the pane where packages are displayed with columns like S, Package name, Latest version etc. Another column can be added saying "License" which displays against each package if it is in main, universe or multiverse or restricted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: synaptic 0.75.9ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 8 10:26:06 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-06 (2 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Bhaavan Merchant (bhaavanmerchant) wrote :
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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