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[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- Unclear where "technical items" are hidden
+ Hard to find many packages: unclear where "technical items" are hidden

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Title:
  Hard to find many packages: unclear where "technical items" are hidden

Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is a usability issue.

  I tried to install Xen using Ubuntu Software Center. First I searched
  for "xen" but didn't find the hypervisor. I tried a few options like
  "*xen*" and some others, but I only got xenwatch, xenlog and vnc-
  client among my search results. I gave up and used apt-get.

  I later discovered:

  1. Searching for "xen-" instead of just "xen" DOES show xen-hypervisor options. Explain that!?
  2. There's a well hidden "Show XX technical items" at the bottom of the window.

  This is bad usability. The "technical items" definition seems useless.
  Aren't xenwatch, xenlog and vnc-client technical items? What exactly
  is a "technical item"?

  But if you insist on hiding packages like that, there should be a
  clearly visible meta-entry among the search results to show the rest
  of the entries.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: software-center 5.4.1.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar  4 16:29:15 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-25 (861 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-20 (74 days ago)

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