On 20-05-17, Yvan Masson wrote: > I also consider this missing "update notification" an important issue > for beginners and people that do not want to manually check for security > updates every day. > > > In Debian Jessie install pk-update-icon from debian-backports > > > > In Debian Stretch install pk-update-icon. > > > > This package works both on Cinnamon, XFCE4 and Gnome. Not sure on the other > > DEs. > > Unfortunately, this is not true for Gnome: in > /etc/xdg/autostart/pk-update-icon.desktop we can see that it is disabled > for both Gnome and KDE. > > So I suppose that Gnome and KDE should display user notification about > updates. > - I can tell that it is not the case for Gnome in Stretch (at least on > my desktop), which makes me really disappointed. Is there anyone here > who gets update notifications under Gnome in Stretch? > - Is there any KDE user here who could tell us if there is update > notifications by default? > > Regards, > Yvan >
Not sure what you mean by "that is not case for Gnome in Stretch". I do not have pk-update-icon package installed, but I do get notifications about updates. As far as I know, it is part of gnome-packagekit package. Not that I use it anyway, first thing after boot is apt-get update && apt-get upgrade for me. But it is usually fast enough to notify my that my morning routine will not be blank shot.