Aptitude should (optionally) show some report after installing packages. Now, it simply installs the packages, and resets its user interface. Even the 'search parameters' are cleared. So after clicking 'apply' I cannot see which packages I actually installed, and I don't have a clue where to look to use the new applications.
But all the info is nicely available. If you search again for the packages you installed, you can see a list of 'installed files'. That helps a lot, but is a pita to look it up again.
After installing the packages, I'd like to see a window with
'You just installed packages x,y and z
* New CLI commands are `dpkg -L x y z | grep '/usr/bin/'`
* Newly installed menu items can be found through
`dpkg -L x y z | grep '/menu/'` and `dpkg -L x y z | grep '\.desktop'`
* Documentation is found at `dpkg -L x y z | grep '/doc/'`
and `dpkg -L x y z | grep '/share/man/'
Hmm, now that I did the effort to find out the relevant commands, I guess I could just as well have implemented it myself ;-)
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