Software Updater Details expands to only one line

[cyraid]

Details

• Desktop: Ubuntu 16.10 (64bit)
• Arc version: 20161005-1
• GTK: libgtk-3 (3.20.9)
• From standard repository (no PPA)

[ghost]

Try to resize the window or the description container, and for future reports, try to include a screenshot of your problem :smile:

[cyraid]

For sure.. Took awhile before I updated again, but I saved a screenshot this time.

[kn00tcn]

if installing or removing a package brings up this window, try it on other themes, it seems unlikely that a theme can do this unless it's a gtk bug

if it stopped happening by now, close this issue

[cyraid]

It still happens. It only happens with this theme, and it's really annoying. Does this happen to nobody else? Does nobody else get Ubuntu software updates?

[kn00tcn]

that's interesting, ubuntu has a lot of users, as does arc... maybe people dont press details

[cyraid]

I guess not! lol .. Wondering if someone will test and fix?

[Jmacwill]

Just wanted to let you folks know that I have the same issue, and I found this thread while trying to fix it. The issue is appearing on BOTH of my Ubuntu 16.10 machines (desktop and Laptop). If you figure it out, I would love to know how to fix it!

[kn00tcn]

so wait, wouldnt mint have the same issue since they're based on ubuntu & use (a modified?) arc as default?

i'm not sure what there is to do without being familiar with the names of the components of this updater window... we'd have to use a gtk inspector (& i dont use ubuntu)

edit: i thought ubuntu17 is out, maybe only beta, but curious about that...

edit2: we could ask the software updater developers themselves, they will know what component it is & how to target it in the theme

[cyraid]

Apparently, I've stumbled on one way to have it expanded.. If you expand the details while it's downloading, it'll have an expanded installation/setup console area. If you expand it AFTER it's downloaded the packages, and in installation/setup, then it only shows one line.. Weird?

[kn00tcn]

nice find, exactly what's needed for testing

sounds like even if i used ubuntu, i wouldnt have noticed since i'd have expanded at the start

[tapiama]

this is still the case in 17.10 - been that way for maybe 2 years, same problem across five ubuntu machines I installed - as cyraid said, it only happen when expanding after the download phrase of update.

[bugspencor]

I see the same symptom on my fresh Xubuntu 17.10 default installation (no Arc theme). So I presume it's not an exclusive Arc issue.

[kn00tcn]

xubuntu still uses greybird as the theme, right? either they use a similar technique or are based on a previous theme (that has updated by now) or one is based on the other

[bugspencor]

Yes, greybird is configured here on the Xubuntu 17.10 default install.

[bugspencor]

Ubuntu 18.04 shows same behavior. I created a bug report on launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1741510

[bugspencor]

This issue has been fixed in in Ubuntu in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/1690541, although according to some reports, for some users an issue with the list of downloads remains.

At least it's not an arc-theme issue.