** Description changed:
I am referring to the removal up the update-notifier in the Gnome
notification area. The discussion of it is embedded in the thread
headed by:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
devel/2009-February/027416.html
Specific messages worth reading are:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027434.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027451.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027454.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027437.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027445.html
Matthew Paul Thomas says that the desired behavior is:
* When there are security updates, Update Manager will open and show
them (plus any other available updates) within a day.
* When there are non-security updates, Update Manager will open and
show them *one week* after it was last opened (whether it was last
opened manually or automatically, and regardless of whether updates
were actually installed then).
* When there are no available updates, Update Manager will not open
automatically at all.
Desired by whom? And where was discussion of this change that effects
the entire Ubuntu community? Because some percentage of users don't
apparently understand that the notification area has meaning, we are not
going to use it for updates? Chow Loong Jin raised a valid point that
if update notification is now done by opening the entire update manager
program, perhaps evolution and similar should open their application UIs
rather than use the notification area. And there are concerns about
unintended functional consequences of this ill-conceived change,
discussed in the thread.
Personally, I predict that opening the Update Manager window while
people are working will piss off a lot of users when it happens, and may
result in them wanting to disable automatic checking. Yes, that'll be
highly desirable, won't it?
In other words, this change should be corrected, and a notification icon
should be displayed when updates are available.
1]To disable the new behaviour and get the old behaviour use:
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
Take into account that this gconf change is not supported.
2]To have the update manager launch immediately when updates are
available, use this:
- gconftool -s --type string /apps/update-
+ gconftool -s --type int /apps/update-
notifier/regular_auto_launch_interval 0
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[Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945
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