https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186880 Bug ID: 1186880 Summary: GNOME PackageKit updater (gpk-update-viewer) shows flickery and uninformative package list while running updates Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.3 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME Assignee: gnome-bugs@suse.de Reporter: sknorr@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- gpk-update-viewer is installed by default on openSUSE GNOME systems and periodically shows notifications about package updates. Unfortunately, it does have a tons of weird UI bugs that not only make the software feel unfinished but also make the desktop itself feel unpolished. One of these issues is the way that the package list behaves while gpk-update-viewer manages the installation of packages: * Patches consisting of multiple packages become unbundled and suddenly all packages that the patch consists of show up individually in the list. That is confusing. * The list flickers and skips around like crazy. Trying to click any item in it, you never get the item you wanted because the list always changes under your cursor. * During download and maybe also during unpacking (I don't understand it), the download size counts down to zero (= where zero means fully downloaded/ installed). That already is confusing, however, for large packages it gets worse, as they will always start from ~42MB of size, count down through to zero, go to their actual size and then count down to 42MB again. * Ultimately, despite the cutesy icons of packages being opened, you never actually what is happening. None of this is appropriate behavior for a default system component that users periodically have to interact with and which can't be uninstalled without also uninstalling important GNOME patterns. Ubuntu's package updater solves this in a much nicer way: By default, it shows just a progress bar. If you want to know more, you can click an expander and you see the terminal output of dpkg. As a first step, I'd suggest that during the update process, gpk-update-viewer should just switch to a simple progress bar. Given how awful the current visualization of updates is, a simple progress bar is just as informative and at least does not look like one huge bug. In a second step, it could either show which package is currently being downloaded/unpacked or a command line view in addition to the progress bar. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.