Did you ever solve the problem? I can only read my application names if I use the filters, of which there are many, instead of "all".
I read the bug report you linked - seems Nokia didn't understand that this was a problem. Perhaps the person answering was not using the "all" filter like a real user.
I recently needed red pill to install some dependency. I was able to see enough of the name to select it, and the "info" button confirmed i'd gotten it right before clicking install. But Red Pill is largely broken when i've turned all the repositories on. It's usually some dependency thing.
At least one package says this on install: "oh, i need this library, and btw, it's in such and such repository, and you don't have that one, do you want that repository?" That's the way i like it. When it works that way, you get this feeling that you're better off than if all you got was a source tarball.
I reported this, and received an email from Marius Vollmer at Nokia, ...
To fix it in your case, you should probably disable the "Show all
packages" option in red-pill mode. Then xserver-xomap will not be
listed at all in the Application Manager.