Bug#678162: gnome-packagekit: terrible UI

[Julien Cristau]

Package: gnome-packagekit
Version: 3.4.2-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

This should probably be several reports, but here goes:

- the main window that comes up when i click on the update notifier has
  a relatively big scrolling area with the list of packages, and a tiny
  one with the changelogs.  They should at the very least be resizeable
  so I can read more than one line from the changelogs without
  scrolling
- the formatting of changelogs is broken, it should respect the original
  formatting if it can't do a better job at keeping item lists readable
- it only asks for a password after it's shown the list of updates and
  I've clicked on 'install updates' and accepted the list of new/removed
  packages.  Not quite sure shoving that kind of thing in the face of
  people who aren't the machine's admin is a good idea.
- and then after I've typed in the root password it just sits there
  doing nothing, presumably because apt is waiting on apt-listchanges,
  which is showing NEWS files in a pty somewhere that I don't seem to
  have access to.

Cheers,
Julien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-1
ii  gnome-packagekit-data                        3.4.2-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.4.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.6.0-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.4-4
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.13-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.16-3
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  packagekit                                   0.7.4-4

gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.

gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.

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