Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-18 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
OK Leandro, I just sent an email to Ayatana list with your mockup and presenting the argument on the possible security flaw. Let us see how it goes. However, I would not be very hopeful, it seems like people in Canonical are convinced that the new behavior is good. best, Paulo On Wed, Nov 18,

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:13 +, Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: OK Leandro, I just sent an email to Ayatana list with your mockup and presenting the argument on the possible security flaw. Let us see how it goes. However, I would not be very hopeful, it seems like people in Canonical are

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread mac_v
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:11 +, Lionel Dricot wrote: Graeme the number of duplicates speaks for itself. But it seems that, for some reason, no usability is involved in this bug What is intriguing with Graeme's user scenario is, why have the users been ignoring the window which was popping

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
Disabling the updater daemon is now part of my installation routine for newbies. (well, I'm still looking for someone that will find that useful so I do it only when they tell me they have a bug with a window appearing all the time). Why disable it? Just use gconf and recover the old (and good)

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread Loïc Martin
mac_v wrote: What is intriguing with Graeme's user scenario is, why have the users been ignoring the window which was popping up? Why were they not updating when the window opened and dismissing it instead? On all computers I've installed Karmic (and Jaunty before) the update-manager

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread Lionel Dricot
As a personal sidenote, I want to add that, during the early discussion, I was not opposed to the idea. I had a lot of doubt but it has to be tried. I was kind of agnostic so let's try and see. Now, I can say that I've seen. It's not a matter of personal preferences : it's a matter when user you

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread ddumont
What is intriguing with Graeme's user scenario is, why have the users been ignoring the window which was popping up? Users ignore this kind of popup behavior because the internet, and viruses do this crap all the time. The same way you filter out ads online, in the store, on tv, wherever you

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
2009/11/17 Leandro leandromartine...@gmail.com: Also, can you imagine the security absurd for a unexperienced user which gets used to the system popuping something AND asking for root privileges? How easy is to mimic that with a website popup? That is a major point. If there anyone can

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread Lionel Dricot
Le mardi 17 novembre 2009 à 21:17 +, Paulo J. S. Silva a écrit : That is a major point. If there anyone can mimic the pop-up behavior using a website maybe, and I mean just maybe, we can get the developers attention on this possible security role. This should *NOT* be a developer

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-11-17 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
Lionel, Whoever made the decision (in this case probably some usability expert), will have to at least reconsider his/her decision in face of a real security risk even if to confirm it later. In my email, please read developer in a more general sense, as someone in the development team who is

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-08-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 15:04 +, Rajeev Nair wrote: Any user who knows the admin password can install updates, That's a pretty long stretch -- assuming that all users have the admin password. This is *exactly* the mentality that has lead to millions of windows machines being exploited and

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-07-06 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On lun, 2009-07-06 at 13:36 +, Chauncellor wrote: A quote from my friend on his Mac's notification system: I find the bouncy icon annoying and all, but if it weren't there I'd probably never update. When it does bounce, I see all the updates and if I don't use some programs in the list

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-07-06 Thread bdoe
I can certainly agree with and appreciate that. It is true that the notification area in the average Ubuntu installation is nowhere near as cluttered as the system tray in the average Windows installation, and it is better to solve a problem *before* it becomes a problem rather than after. I'd

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-07-05 Thread getut
In what way will the way the pop under change in the way it is presented? It really doesn't matter how it is presented, if it pops up in the users space it is going to be hated by most people. Media center PC's, presentations, people doing real work will always find it a huge annoyance if it uses

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-07-04 Thread Bernard Springer
When I reported the bug I thought it might be a security issue and I still think it might. In my case the window opened spontaneously and I got notification of updates but when I closed that window without updating and clicked on update manager to deliberately open the window and check for

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-06-23 Thread Steve Dodier
Just my 2 cents, but I consider we're going right into a wall if we design intrusive tools, even if the intrusiveness (does this word exist ?) is legitimate. Remember what about to Windows' UAC. Imo, it should be ok to use a notify-osd notification + a systray icon for updates as soon as they're

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-06-23 Thread mac_v
Steve Dodier wrote: Imo, it should be ok to use a notify-osd notification + a systray icon for updates as soon as they're available, and to pop-up the window only on extreme cases : @ Steve: The pop-up window seems like a reasonable option in the scenario's you've given... But i feel that

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-06-23 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
I had been very vocal here opposing the change but i went with it... And *even though it might not have been the intended purpose* for the removal of the icon, *I have found the icon removal useful* ... *Now I dont think much about the updates* , there is no icon nagging me about the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying

2009-06-23 Thread mac_v
Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: * When the user has chosen not to download updates , These notification repeat again at a later time[10mins/30mins/1hr/4hrs/1day/7days],which the user chooses from a drop-down menu and if the user tries to shutdown before updating he is reminded again via the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-17 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 14/06/2009 Chauncellor wrote: After realizing this, I've found out that MPT was right: I don't think that any icon will suit the notification area for a casual user. There is something that needs to be done. HOWEVER, I still don't agree that the pop-up is the necessary solution. I

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-17 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 15/06/2009 alle 22.55 +, bdoe ha scritto: The same could be said for Windows. Since Windows XP SP2, automatic security updates are turned on by default, and users have to specifically opt out of it to turn it off. I want to point out the following to the many who think

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-16 Thread getut
To use automotive analogies in this... If our check engine light comes on our car taking us in a straight line to the dealership, not following roads, going straight through forest, lakes, streams etc. Its just ludicrous devs hijacking the desktop with unsolicited pop-ups. Update manager is going

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-15 Thread bdoe
-Original Message- From: Vincenzo Ciancia Subject: Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:59:50 - I am in all ways against automatic updates because I think the user must be aware of when something delicate

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-14 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno dom, 14/06/2009 alle 04.56 +, bdoe ha scritto: Regarding automatic updates: I'm with Martin on this one; I believe it should be turned on by default I am in all ways against automatic updates because I think the user must be aware of when something delicate is happening. E.g. in

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-14 Thread LanoxxthShaddow
I have marked Leandro's Brainstorm Idea as a duplicate of: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19283 Best Regards Lanoxx -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-13 Thread bdoe
Regarding automatic updates: I'm with Martin on this one; I believe it should be turned on by default. If you are on a pay-per-use Internet plan or a plan that places a cap on your usage, you can simply go in and turn off the automatic updates. After all, if Canonical is so concerned about the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-12 Thread getut
MPT.. so if I am hearing this right... popup/popunder is here to stay and there is no amount of griping in any fashion, organized or unorganized that can get that virus... erm feature removed going forward? -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-12 Thread mac_v
getut wrote: MPT.. so if I am hearing this right... popup/popunder is here to stay and there is no amount of griping in any fashion, organized or unorganized that can get that virus... erm feature removed going forward? sad to say that feature seems here to stay ! since mostly they dont have

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-12 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno ven, 12/06/2009 alle 20.34 +, mac_v ha scritto: concerns *need* to be made at https://launchpad.net/~ayatana subscribe to this mailing list and voice your concerns... its no use here... Subscribe to that mailing list if you are interested in constructive discussion, not to

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 10/06/2009 alle 04.52 +, mb_webguy ha scritto: Ubuntu is likewise a free distribution, and so market share doesn't really figure into it. I think you didn't notice the hype around preinstalled ubuntu and OEM, which is where all this mess came from :) It is clear that

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-10 Thread bdoe
I know this is probably no consolation for a lot of us in the short term, but there IS an option here: Like any other free open-source software, source code for all of what makes up Gnome is available. If Gnome is taking a turn in an undesirable direction, there's no reason why Gnome can't fork.

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-09 Thread ddumont
Really? So the majority of the PC users, and a good portion of the open source market decided that they liked a certain model... And you come and proclaim that they all have it wrong? Very bold of you, sir. I really don't icare/i what you think about the notification area... What I care about

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-05 Thread LanoxxthShaddow
I have to agree here. What will happen to programms like pidgin or Skype. Can we not send them to the notification area any more? That would be really disappointing. What other place will there be to have a permanent place of putting apps that run in the background, if you ultimately remove the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-04 Thread riban
Leandro: This looks nice but only works if you have a SYSTEM menu. UNR users don't and users who remove or move this menu (as I have on a notebook) will not see the notification indication. Walt -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-04 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 04/06/2009 alle 14.41 +, Matthew Paul Thomas ha scritto: yurx cherio: People had already been trying to find an effective icon for years, from one that looked like a cigarette packet (Ubuntu 5.04) to a red pinwheel (5.10) to an orange square (6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10) to

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-04 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 03/06/2009 alle 19.36 +, mb_webguy ha scritto: This one, however, was -- in many users' opinions -- for the worse, and the response to negative user feedback on this issue has made it seem as if the developers are determinedly ignoring it. No the feedback has not been

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-03 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mar, 02/06/2009 alle 15.30 +, braddock ha scritto: What happened to the wide-spread usability principle that modal dialogs (aka, an unwanted update window) are BAD? \begin{acid*} It has been argued (in my opinion, very imprecisely) that no system can go on without

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:55 +, Toralv wrote: I think it's rather communistic of those responsible for this change to impose their personal preference on everybody. Hrm. You don't seem to understand the concept of communism and are making the common mistake of calling what you characterize

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-03 Thread bdoe
True. I believe the correct term would be fascism; but we are getting way off topic. FWIW, I noticed that the behavior of the update window seems to have changed since I first installed Jaunty. Instead of opening as a popup/popunder, it is opening minimized in my task panel. Though this is not as

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 22:19 +, Ricardo Pérez López wrote: Interestingly, the client of the Canonical's recently released UbuntuOne service puts a persistent applet icon in the notification area: https://ubuntuone.com/support/installation/ Well, I don't see any evidence there one way or

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-09 Thread bdoe
Jonathan Marsden wrote: I'm slightly bewildered that so many here apparently feel that bothering to read the Jaunty Release Notes and doing what they suggest, to restore the old approach, is impossibly difficult... or something? I'm pretty sure most of us are aware of how to bring back the old

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-06 Thread mac_v
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: mac_v: A notification that a window has popped up? You mean something like this screenshot? That's how Mac OS 9 did it a decade ago. Its main problem was that there was no direct way to get from the notification to the actual window, violating the principle of direct

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-05 Thread mac_v
C. Cooke wrote: Paulo J. S. Silva : About updates in the indicator applet: I've been working on a proof-of- concept that does just that. It currently implements indicator messages for updates and needing to reboot. You can find it at http://earth.gkhs.net/ccooke/indicator/ Note that

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-04 Thread bdoe
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: bdoe: If you are still having this problem, I suggest subscribing to the http://www.ubuntu.com/usn feed, and then reporting a bug the next time a package you have installed shows up there without Update Manager opening within a day. We'd take that very seriously. I'm

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:12 +, scar wrote: open the update manager on all desktops at least Oh yeah, that's much better. Annoying * $number_of_desktops. Talk about getting right in somebody's face. Surely it's obvious by now that this was a very ill-thought out decision. I've said

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-03 Thread mac_v
Uwe Schilling wrote: Well, it need not be a ticker, it need not be animated,Or it could be animated by default and there is an option to turn off the animation. Or the ticker is moving through just once and then stays still until the mouse hovers over it, or ... I basically just wanted to

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-02 Thread bdoe
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: bdoe: If there are security updates waiting in the archive and Update Manager doesn't open within a day, please report a separate bug about that. However -- and I apologize in advance if this affects your sleep -- it has never been true that if there's no icon up

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-01 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 17:00 +, Richard Thomas wrote: Also I would like to point out that if you make use of virtual desktops feature I have 9 desktops It very very easy to miss the pop up as on my machine it shows on desktop one while i tend work on other desktops and have firefox

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-01 Thread Alan Pope
2009/5/1 Richard Thomas xpd...@gmail.com: Also  I would like to point out that if you make use of virtual desktops feature I have 9 desktops It very very easy to miss the pop up as on my machine it shows on desktop one while i tend work on other desktops and have firefox open on full screen

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Whittaker
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 17:56 +, mac_v wrote: +1 .but the only thing would be to drop beneath in a few seconds * only when the user is working * but *remain persistent until the users returns to the system* and starts to work. That seems a good idea. However, there are a couple use cases

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread LanoxxthShaddow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +1 this is a very nice idea. Also I like to state AGAIN: Why is choice such a big problem for you design people, if you want to remove the icons from the notificaion area by default, ok go ahead. But then give people who do like it the option to

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread mac_v
Peter Whittaker wrote: Watching a full screen video, for example. i dont think that full screen video/any video are a problem, since gnome-screen saver recognizes when videos are playing, something similar probably could be worked in for detection. but the real problem will be with flash firefox

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/4/30 Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com: Matt Wheeler, LanoxxthShaddow: We removed the icon because we're trying to reduce the number of items in the notification area, and update- notifier was an easy one to start with because Notify OSD forced us to solve the 'Click the icon'? What

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread John Clemens
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: John Clemens: The issue of trying to guess when is the best time to interrupt people is a tricky problem for notifications in general. As getut pointed out, you're conflating interruption with notification.

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Whittaker
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 15:49 +, getut wrote: The issue of trying to guess when is the best time to interrupt people MPT... never IS a perfectly valid answer to INTERRUPTING a user. +1, mod parent up, etc. At the risk of seeming like I am in love with my own ideas, this was why I proposed

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread mac_v
Peter Whittaker wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 15:49 +, getut wrote: The issue of trying to guess when is the best time to interrupt people MPT... never IS a perfectly valid answer to INTERRUPTING a user. +1, mod parent up, etc. At the risk of seeming like I am in love with my own

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread Mehall
Self appointed benevolent dictator for life ;) Torben wrote: It is sad to see, but I think this will not be the last big dissapointment. Sure you can't satisfy all users at any time, but what is claimed to be leadership here is the kind of spirit I wouldn't expect from a linux distribution

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Jamin W. Collins: By gratuitously difficult I meant you had to (1) notice the icon, (2) recall that orange starburst = updates available (possibly assisted by a notification bubble, if you happened to look during the time the bubble was visible), (3) click on it (the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread Matt Wheeler
I was initially opposed to this change as a default, but having spoken to a friend who upgraded to Jaunty just after the release I am much happier about the idea of testing it on 'the masses'. My friend, who is quite technical (works in the IT department in a school), said he preferred the new

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Jamin W. Collins: By gratuitously difficult I meant you had to (1) notice the icon, (2) recall that orange starburst = updates available (possibly assisted by a notification bubble, if you happened to look during the time the bubble was visible), (3) click on it (the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: I have seen no evidence, in this bug report or anywhere else, of the simple need for a form of persistent notification for software updates. have u considered that these update windows WONT GET NOTICED, when the user is working in other windows and only noticed

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
Stanislaw Pitucha wrote: 2. (in case of us) Think - did I forget to close it after the last upgrade, or was I waiting for package list update to finish, or is it notifying me about new upgrades so i'm not the only one this happened to me when i got the firefox security update! when previously i

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
Matt Wheeler wrote: My friend, who is quite technical (works in the IT department in a school), said he preferred the new system because before he would just ignore the orange icon (even though he knew what it meant). quite technical but doesnt update? wow! and works in the IT department!

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
getut wrote: Can anyone give a definite answer on how long the gconf command to revert to old behavior will be supported going forward? AFAIK, the gconf method is currently not *supported*. It does work but it is not a *supported* option. So, I believe we have our answer. -- [Jaunty]

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/4/29 mac_v drkv...@yahoo.com: Matt Wheeler wrote: My friend, who is quite technical (works in the IT department in a school), said he preferred the new system because before he would just ignore the orange icon (even though he knew what it meant). quite technical but doesnt update?

Re: Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread John Clemens
On Apr 29, 2009 10:10am, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote He doesn't teach, but that is irrelevant, and confirms my point. If even IT staff are ignoring updates unless they are prompted by a window opening, how many normal users are doing the same? Unlike mac_v, I will not disparage your

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: mac_v: As I explained in the very text you quoted, we are not creating such security holes: that problem already exists, regardless of Update Manager. As for your food analogy, you are confusing perfect with better. We switched to Notify OSD, with the necessary

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-29 Thread mac_v
hurga wrote: manager window means, so nothing gained. Put the issue up for a vote, where the majority of ubuntu users can vote and don't decide over peoples head. @hurga http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19283/ this voting has already been going on regarding this notifier at brainstorm...

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-27 Thread Brian Curtis
There was one dev that came here and stated (and to which I agree) that if the devs kept listening to everyones complaints Ubuntu wouldn't have changed since 4.10. There are those that are truly resistant to change and constantly badger devs because they didn't get what they wanted. On that

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-26 Thread mac_v
James Dowden wrote: I had thought this was just a bug in the beta version, but I did not know which package to report it against. Now I've read this and I am totally outraged by this deliberate regression. As for Mark Shuttleworth's ludicrous assumption that only coding experts want the

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Whittaker
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:38 +, mac_v wrote: a bit too harsh there pal... Harsh? Perhaps. But given the comparative levels of user frustration and development intransigence, the frustration is understandable. asking the devs for an apology, is way out there!!! Absolutely not. At this

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-24 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno ven, 24/04/2009 alle 09.43 +, hurga ha scritto: Revert this, and whoever signed off on that change should be spanked, hard. I would not want _these persons_ to be spanked. In any case ubuntu developers have done an extremely good job across the years. Dapper was nothing more

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-24 Thread Jonatan Schroeder
Just to give my two cents on the subject: I'm in favour of keeping the notification icon for a simple reason. Someone (I don't remember if Mark or someone else) mentioned, from what I got, that the notification area has been used by applications, and to avoid confusion we should remove it from

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-21 Thread LanoxxthShaddow
I believe Roshan was talking about the notificaion area: I cannot imagine why getting rid of an updates _notification_ in a _notification area_ was reasonable. This is very annoying. Maybe you should read his post again. Jonathan Davies wrote: Roshan: That is a separate issue - see bug #356152

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread mac_v
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stanislaw Pitucha wrote: Yeah... affects me too. why doesnt canonical add a voting system where the users can vote for a feature... the new notification system is good, but poorly planned... the *devs could have held off the app push atleast

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/20 mac_v drkv...@yahoo.com: why doesnt canonical add a voting system where the users can vote for a feature... http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ Just because something is popular, doesn't make it right. -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Philippe Escarbassière
2009/4/20 mac_v drkv...@yahoo.com: why doesnt canonical add a voting system where the users can vote for a feature... http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ Just because something is popular, doesn't make it right. I'm not sure building a feature everybody dislikes is better... --

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread mac_v
Alan Pope wrote: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ Just because something is popular, doesn't make it right. @alan i'v know about brain storm... but its for new ideas and implementation... i suggest for voting already implemented new features... i understand that popular doesnt mean right...

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread mac_v
xpd259 wrote: a simple notification bubble been shown every x min is more then enough to notify a user to update with out intruding on the users desktop +1 ^ this is a lovely idea... xpd i hope u can add this to the notify-osd comments section -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Philippe Escarbassière
s/everybody/a vocal minority/ Regarding the number of duplicates and comments, I don't believe it's a vocal minority. And regarding all the opposition, maybe a kind of survey would be nice to be sure the feature is benefic to Ubuntu users or not. At least I find it's premature to enable this

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/20 Philippe Escarbassière phil_...@club-internet.fr: I'm not sure building a feature everybody dislikes is better... s/everybody/a vocal minority/ -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread LanoxxthShaddow
+1 please do a survey or make a poll available for users to vote. There are currently about 20 bugs with (from what I see) the majority of the people complaining about it. This is not a minor thing. -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 20/04/2009 alle 09.27 +, Alan Pope ha scritto: I'm not sure building a feature everybody dislikes is better... s/everybody/a vocal minority/ This comment is anti-scientific. Either you invent a survey and convince users (ubuntu or launchpad users, and it makes a

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread mac_v
xpd259 wrote: a simple notification bubble been shown every x min is more then enough to notify a user to update with out intruding on the users desktop @Matthew Paul Thomas , Alan Pope consider this idea instead of the pop-under... i understand this is not immediately possible, but hope

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread mac_v
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: 2009/4/20 Philippe EscarbassiÚre phil_...@club-internet.fr: I'm not sure building a feature everybody dislikes is better... s/everybody/a vocal minority/ yeah maybe we are the minority who think that they can improve this

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread mac_v
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/4/20 Philippe EscarbassiÚre phil_...@club-internet.fr: I'm not sure building a feature everybody dislikes is better... s/everybody/a vocal minority/ yeah maybe we are the minority who think that they can improve this linux flavor , but signing up for an account ,

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 20/04/2009 alle 14.37 +, xpd259 ha scritto: simple answer .. unofficial answer but here is a poll http://www.doodle.com/h7shad47ffgpxpyq Am I reading Mark Shuttleworth voting for the old-style notification? Perhaps a poll with launchpad authentication would be

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Philippe Escarbassière
@Jonathan I didn't speak about developers. I'm a developer myself and I try not to bash other developers and respect their work. But I listen to users feedback too. In this case, even if 221 votes are not a proof (plus other forum posts and wiki comments), it's clearly an indication this new

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/4/20 xpd259 xpd...@gmail.com simple answer .. unofficial answer but here is a poll http://www.doodle.com/h7shad47ffgpxpyq Well, it's conclusive, obviously - 25 people have voted in favour of the old system so far, including Bill Gates, The Real Slim Shady and the Big Bird off of Sesame

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread arand
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Il giorno lun, 20/04/2009 alle 14.37 +, xpd259 ha scritto: simple answer .. unofficial answer but here is a poll http://www.doodle.com/h7shad47ffgpxpyq Am I reading Mark Shuttleworth voting for the old-style notification? Perhaps a poll with

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:01 +, Philippe Escarbassière wrote: @Jonathan I didn't speak about developers. I'm a developer myself and I try not to bash other developers and respect their work. But I listen to users feedback too. I wasn't picking you out in particular, I'm just hoping to

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:34 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Philippe, if we made only changes that were welcome to everybody, we wouldn't have changed anything since Ubuntu 4.10. s/everybody/most people/ or s/everybody/majority of users/ as I think the original intention of everybody was

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-14 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:26 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ami_nakata: Not only is it an implementation detail whether an automatically-opening window is from a newly-running application or an already-running application, it's an implementation detail whether *any* window is from a

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-12 Thread Brian Curtis
A few suggestions i'd like to add, -maybe they should popunder, then if the X is clicked push it to the messaging menu -the user then controls priority (its popped under as a high priority item), then if nothings done (an X (close) is clicked) it lowers in priority to the messaging menu -maybe

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Peter Whittaker wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 19:55 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: I think it's important that we not treat the OS specially, Mark, thanks for your comments. I think this one area where there is considerable disagreement: The OS is different - when the computer needs

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-09 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 09/04/2009 alle 07.38 +, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: My point is that we should have clear guidelines about what constitutes each mode of operation, and we should follow those as rigorously with the OS as we would hope apps do, as well. I dreamed of clear guidelines

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Whittaker
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 08:38 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Peter Whittaker wrote: The OS is different - when the computer needs to tell me something, I probably shouldn't ignore it. Think firealarm. Yes, that's true. But there are some apps that have fire alarms too - imagine, for

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Peter Whittaker wrote: If you read my comments on the wiki page, you'll see I make clear distinctions between system and user notifications: Let's apply that distinction consistently. A user notification is a doorbell, it appears in the user notification area, near where the user keeps their

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: What would be the place to participate in the design of the notification-area related changes? Join the Ayatana team mailing list on Launchpad! Mark -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You

Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Whittaker
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:41 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Peter Whittaker wrote: If you read my comments on the wiki page, you'll see I make clear distinctions between system and user notifications: Let's apply that distinction consistently. A user notification is a doorbell, it appears

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