Comment 168 for bug 332945

> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:55:27 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information
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> 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.

Can please provide studies which show and helped in your conclusion that "system tray is heavily overused". Personally I only have one to three things in "system tray", which does not seem overused to me. Also maybe it is this way because almost all the application I use which allows me to chose if I want to have the icon or not. Can the OS follow the apps in this way and provide a supported option so the user can decide what make it easy for him/her?

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> 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.
>

Thanks for listening to the users and reading all the forum threads related this.

So in conclusion, I still don't see how going from icon with notification the you have update to minimized window make it more noticeable. I think it just made things worst because not I have to manage extra window since I don't want to update now and can't close it since I will be notified week later. Also this broke the automatically check for updates daily seeting, which have been set since day one of ubuntu for me. Thanks from making my system more secure, easy to manage/productive, and just the way I want it now. I would call this "settled".

And yes I am frusteraded and if you can't understand why then I am sorry.

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