Comment 121 for bug 332945

The "abolish the icon and bubble, and instead open the updates window directly" behavior introduced as part of this change just feels very disrespectful to me. One of the things that prompted me to install Ubuntu and move away from the market-share leader's products is what I view as that vendor's cavalier, heavy-handed updating behavior. They don't seem to realize that IT'S MY COMPUTER, not theirs, and this behavioral change seems to me to reflect confusion on that issue, as well.

I do not want any "phone home" process to unilaterally open windows on *MY* computer or to try to browbeat me into taking any action that some other person has decided I should take to modify *MY* computer. Yes, security updates are important to me, so much so that I've allowed a particular area of my screen's real-estate to be reserved for notification of their availability. But as important as they are, security updates are much less important to me than my sense of personal control over *MY* computer. Some might reply that delaying security updates can be hazardous to that control also, but it damages user's trust to try to force-feed updates in any way, as this change of behavior does. Any concerns (such as launchpad "bug" 175166) that the message "Click on the notification icon to show the available updates" might be misunderstood could have been addressed much more simply, in my opinion, and much less intrusively. ( Pardon the capitalization here, please, but I think the emphasis really is called for in this context. )

The bottom line on this for me is that I've decided to upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid rather than to Jaunty, as I'd originally planned, because I find this change of behavior so distasteful.