Whenever updates are available, the System Settings icon in the Dash and
Launcher should have a badge, and currently does not. I've reported that
as bug 1362518.
And once you enter System Settings to find out the reason for the badge,
it would indeed make sense for the "Updates" icon to have the same badge
too. I've reported that as bug 1362547.
However, neither of those would solve the problem described in this bug.
Because on my test handset at least, the "Updates" item -- like the
other semi-bureaucratic items in the grid's bottom row -- requires
scrolling to make it visible. And that would be true even if we got rid
of the "Updates available" item (and even moreso once the current
vertical spacing inconsistencies are corrected).
Fortunately, we don't need to get rid of the "Updates available" item to
solve this problem. The problem is much simpler than that: the item is
being added to the layout at the wrong time.
If the phone knows that updates are available from doing an automatic
check, the item should be present immediately when you open System
Settings, not a couple of seconds later. And if the phone *doesn't* know
that updates are available, it shouldn't find out unless/until you
actually navigate to the "Updates" section and trigger a manual check,
whereupon you won't be on the main screen anyway. The current behavior
seems like it is incorrectly doing a manual check for updates whenever
you enter System Settings at all.
The only situation where the item should slide into view, like it's
doing now, is when you happen to have the System Settings main screen
open at the same moment that the phone is doing its automatic check for
updates. Even if (a) the automatic check was daily, (b) you had so many
apps installed that updates were available every day, and (c) you
averaged two entire minutes looking at the System Settings main screen
per day (obviously an overestimate), you would experience this jiggle
only once every 720 days.
** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) => (unassigned)
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'Updates available' header that appears in Settings moves icons around
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