I am used to (from other DE’s/distro’s update tools) being able to see the live logs of the updates (stdout/stderr) as they are applied, which I quite like. Currently, the “Details” popout in Discover seems mostly useless to me, and the button for it doesn’t even show up when only system packages are being updated.
I’d like there to be an embedded terminal output (read-only) in which the stdout and stderr of the commands Discover is running in the background are shown. That would not only give me actually “Details” in the “Details” popout about what’s happening in real-time, it would also allow me to see the maybe important messages that the %post scriptlets of some packages print to stdout.
Maybe that log should be collapsed by default, only becoming visible when folded out, like e.g. in Mint’s updater, but it should at least be an option. And to make it useful, the “Details” button would have to become visible when anything is being installed/updated, even when only system packages are affected (like it was until I believe Plasma 6.3). And maybe as a bonus the “Details” popout would optionally stay visible until clicked away after the update/install finishes when the terminal is folded out, so it doesn’t disappear while reading the logs.