[Bug 796525] Re: Checking/unchecking any add-on checkbox moves them all

[Robert Roth]

While trying to fix this bug (moved the status bar after the addons table), I have found that the "Free" label in the addon changes status bar is a hardcoded label, and never changes. I would suggest changing that label to "Addons" and have the whole addon status bar as the header of the addon list, with the buttons shown or hidden depending on whether there are changes or there aren't any in the addon selections. 
IMO the Apply changes and the Cancel button look a lot more integrated in the addons header, and this also would solve this bug in a vertical-space-efficient way. See a screenshot of my local changes to see what I'm talking about. Maybe it's worth experimenting with this solution, and changing the background of the statusbar to the color the header was before.
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** Attachment added: "screenshot with the buttons in the addons table header"
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Title:
  Checking/unchecking any add-on checkbox moves them all

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  Ubuntu Software Center 4.0.3, Ubuntu 11.04

  1. Navigate to any item that has add-ons, e.g. Inkscape.
  2. Check or uncheck any of the add-ons.
  3. Uncheck or check it to return it to its previous state.

  What happens:
  2. The checkbox, and all the other add-on checkboxes, jump downwards.
  3. All the add-on checkboxes jump upwards again.

  What should happen: All the checkboxes stay in the same place.

  This is because the "Apply Changes" bar appears above the checkboxes. So that bar needs to do one of these:
  - always be present
  - have space reserved for it, even when it isn't present
  - appear only below the list of add-ons, not above
  - make the page expand upwards when it appears, not downwards, with the checkboxes staying in their current position.

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