Comment 140 for bug 332945
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| ddumont (ddumont) wrote Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information | #140 |
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>Are you being intruded when your
>e-mail program notifies you in a persistent window that new mail is
>ready (and maybe even bring up the program window unfocused)? Are you
>being intruded when your IM client pops up a window when someone new
>IM's you?
YES!
Now please allow for the user to revert this behaviour.
There is a reason that the feature for new IM messages to be restricted to
only flashing in the system tray is part of every major IM program...
I wish you would realise that. Feel free to run like crazy with your
developer 'ideas' but when you do, provide a way for us users to turn the
insanity off when we don't like it.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Brian Curtis <email address hidden>wrote:
> @ mac_v: It appears as if you're basing your judgement on the amount of
> clicks it takes to perform actions. The amount of time it *really*
> takes to make 4 clicks (making the assumption that you have to move the
> mouse between each click), is no more than like 4 seconds.
>
> What makes these things "difficult", is that most of the time people
> aren't staring at their taskbar tray, and any icon that pops up goes
> unnoticed (most of the time). Making this how MPT has it , is something
> to try out, and get used to. I can't imagine you knew how to run ubuntu
> the first day you used it. Take the time to get used to the changes,
> and adapt yourself to it, as Ubuntu thankfully makes this easy.
>
> In General: I really think that users should let the development teams
> run away with their ideas, because a ton of people really want to see
> changes to their OS that make it better (all in different ways), and the
> people that complain about 2 vs 4 clicks or how "intrusive" these things
> are, really need to step back a bit. Are you being intruded when your
> e-mail program notifies you in a persistent window that new mail is
> ready (and maybe even bring up the program window unfocused)? Are you
> being intruded when your IM client pops up a window when someone new
> IM's you? I bet you don't think so.
>
> Adapt to the changes, as you would if you were trying out a different
> OS, or a new version of some software you use. It's really not that
> difficult.
>
> --
> [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information
> https:/
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: New
> Status in “update-notifier” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in update-notifier in Ubuntu Jaunty: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> 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:/
>
> Specific messages worth reading are:
>
> https:/
> https:/
> https:/
> https:/
> https:/
>
> 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.
>
> To disable the new behaviour and get the old behaviour use:
>
> gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-
>
> Take into account that this gconf change is not supported.
>