Unfortunately I do not have a fix, I am just a power user not a
developer. But the issue seems simple to me as I don't get the
complexity of adding a condition:  if one of the sources boxes has been
ticked then gksudo apt-get update gets run when the close button is
pressed.

or just as simple, add a button next to revert:"Update Changes" which
also runs gksudo apt-get update.

The reason why I called this out is that this bug was logged 2 years
ago, with multiple duplicates associated to it and not assigned to
anyone.

This issue is trivial enough if you are comfortable with the command
line. But for an OS thats supposed to easy and have the average user in
mind, having them choose a software source and then trying to install an
app from that source and not finding that app just because the sources
were not downloaded is an extremely bad user experience.

Minor user issues like this (of which there are many) detract from the
rest of the polish being done on Ubuntu. But the attitude of just
letting them slip by and languish for years does not help the user's
experience or Ubuntu/Canonical's image.

I take the time to log issues and chase them up and that's the level of
help I can provide. But from this interaction I don't even see the point
of logging user bugs anymore.

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  Software Center doesn't detect changes in sources until update-apt-
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