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software-properties package

Searching Dash for "drivers" doesn't find "Additional Drivers" tab

Bug #1078100 reported by Steven Roose
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software-properties (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Critical
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Bug Description

Now it is not possible to find "Additional Drivers" by searching for "drivers" in the Dash. It doesn't feel logically to select your hardware drivers in the Software Source package when before there was a separate menu item.

Finally Google could tell me where to find it, but I think at least the "Additional Drivers" tab should be accessible though the Dash with the keywords "additional drivers".

I believe the section should be a separate menu item in the Settings screen or in the System menu before Unity.

See original description
Steven Roose (stevenroose)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Opinion
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This should be easy to fix by adding keywords for the Software Sources item.

description: updated
summary: - Additional Driver tab should be easier to find through Dash
+ Searching Dash for "drivers" doesn't find "Additional Drivers" tab
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: Opinion → Triaged
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
tags: added: quantal raring usability
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Jan Rathmann (kaiserclaudius) wrote :

Like the reporter, I had to do a web search to find out where the module to install additional/propritary drivers had gone in Quantal! From an end user perspective I can see no logic in finding the driver related settings in another module called "Software Sources"(sic!).

So my suggestion would be to rename "Software Sources" to "Software Sources and Drivers" to make clear for the end user that this program now also deals with driver things.

Kind regards,
Jan

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1060543, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Hilton Gibson (hgibson) wrote :

Change we change the title to "Software Stores and Drivers". This is simple to understand and translate. "Software Sources" does not mean anything for the average user.

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