[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2011-09-09 Thread Kiwinote
Hi! Thanks for your bug report. As you may be aware, the upcoming release of Ubuntu 11.10 will feature a redesigned software-center. The bug you describe is no longer present in recent development versions of software-center, so I'll close this bug report. Please continue to report any bugs you may

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2011-05-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
yman, could you attach a sketch showing your proposal in more detail? For example, a case where you have two third-party repositories and one task is in progress. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2011-04-22 Thread yman
The navigation pane is unnecessary, wasteful, and ugly. All of its features can be implemented via other means. For Current Activity there could be a panel that appears at the bottom or the top when stuff is going on with a progressbar for overall progress and a button to expand the view. History a

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2011-04-22 Thread yman
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445380 Title: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2009-10-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
(Technically this bug report would be Fixed only when those other items are added to the navigation pane. But we'll add them regardless of whether this bug report is open, so it's not useful for tracking purposes.) -- Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2009-10-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Thanks for the suggestion. But as I've shown in the specification, in future versions the navigation pane will display arbitrary numbers of other items: History, individual software sources, removable media containing packages (e.g. Ubuntu CDs), collections for offline installation, and so on. So i

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Holmes
Agreed. There is a button above the screen which either says "Get Free Software" or "Installed Software", depending on which is currently viewed. This could be used as a means of switching to the other view, and the left sidebar removed, except that the button always seems to link to the current vi

[Bug 445380] Re: Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Vogt
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Sidebar on the left wastes a lot of screenspace https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of