Refreshes the whole window after installing/uninstalling a package

Bug #901876 reported by Gary Lasker
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software-center (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

This bug is created from question #177635:

  https://answers.launchpad.net/software-center/+question/177635

The following description is from the corresponding question, and was submitted by Industrial (tom-wieland).

  https://launchpad.net/~tom-wieland

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.

description: updated
affects: software-center → software-center (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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