[Bug 486133] Re: What does "Do selected tasks" mean?

[hawthornso23]

I am scared to use the application at all because I literally have no
idea what it will do.

The list of applications selected by ticks suggests that when I click
the "perform selected tasks" button the applications selected will be
removed. They are SELECTED. "Perform selected tasks" suggests that
something will be done to the selected stuff - i.e. it will be removed.

But when I go to deselect an application from the list (because some of
the stuff on it is stuff I installed manually that I want to keep), I am
asked to authenticate with the message "Removing Unused Packages
Requires Authentication". This immediately confuses me. Indeed the
wording suggests that DESELECTING an application will remove it.

At this point I honestly have no idea (I'm not bullshitting you here - I
literally cannot decide) whether it is the selected or delected
applications that will be removed were I to click on the "Perform
Selected Tasks" button. I reckon I have about a 50% chance of having it
do the exact opposite of what I intend. And I'm not a computer
illiterate.

Not liking those odds I decided the safest thing to do was close the
Janitor and not use it. And seek help of course from ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1775705

The problem is very real. From my point of view this application is
completely ambiguous.

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Title:
  What does "Do selected tasks" mean?

Status in “computer-janitor” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: computer-janitor

  I opened the Computer Janitor and it is not going to be 100% clear to
  a less experienced user what the tool is planning on doing.  I have
  one item listed: "Adobe-flashplugin" under the "Unused" column, and
  then there is a button which says "Do selected tasks."

  What exactly is the "selected task" that it is going to do?  Is it
  going to remove that plugin?  If so,  the column should probably  be
  "Unused items to remove".  The "Recommended" title is even less
  unclear.  I assume is meant to be "Recommended for removal", in which
  case, we should say that.

  I have no clue what might appear in the optimize column, and if it did
  appear there, what action the tool is going to perform on something
  listed in that column.

  Lastly, Help provides no help.

  
  $ apt-cache policy computer-janitor
  computer-janitor:
    Installed: 1.13.3-0ubuntu2
    Candidate: 1.13.3-0ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 1.13.3-0ubuntu2 0
          500 http://astromirror.uchicago.edu karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status