software-properties Additional Drivers tab informational text enhancement
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-properties (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The Kubuntu installation process offers this check-box on the second screen:
"Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, Flash, MP3 and other media" box while installing Kubuntu as another form of manual installation."
If you check that box, your video drivers are handled for you by a collaboration between Ubuntu and NVIDIA.
The "Additional Drivers" tab in Software Sources then displays these messages when you open it:
* "This device is using a manually-installed driver."
* "Continue using a manually installed driver"
* "No proprietary drivers are in use."
It wasn't obvious to me that "manually-
I would like to suggest that the first two messages in the "Additional Drivers" tab get changed to something like this to make it obvious that they include us:
* "This device is using a manually-installed or third-party driver."
* "Continue using a manually-installed or third-party driver"
Or if you'd like to word it differently:
* "This device is using a manually-installed or automatically-
* "Continue using a manually-installed or automatically-