Thanks to everyone who's participated in this bug discussion and related
threads. As a result, a number of changes were made in 9.04 pre-release. There
is a gconf key which allows people to have a system tray icon visible when
updates are available. The behaviour of the update manager was changed so that
it doesn't pop up but instead opens minimised, and only on a weekly basis
unless a security update is present (as opposed to another kind of update).
I think the system tray is heavily overused, and abused, by many
applications, and as part of our design initiative we are working to
reduce that. I think it's important that we not treat the OS specially,
that we work to the same guidelines we want app authors to follow, which
is why we aimed to change this OS-update behaviour first. We must lead,
not follow, and lead by example too. It was expected that we would run
into tough problems, but bringing the full weight of the community to
bear on candidate solutions would be the best way to attempt to resolve
them. A lot of the discussion here was in that spirit - finding smart
solutions to the challenges presented, so thank you all.
I'm marking the bug wontfix on the basis that we are confident the
behaviour as at 9.04 release is a good one. I wouldn't be surprised for
the conversation to continue though I do ask that it continue in a good
spirit. If significant data shows this to be a suboptimal choice in
future, we will revisit the point, but for now the question is settled.
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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[Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information
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