Ubuntu
update-notifier package

  1. Bug #332945 (update-notifier-autolaunch)
  2. Comment #371

Comment 371 for bug 332945

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

Il giorno gio, 04/06/2009 alle 14.41 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas ha
scritto:
>
>
> yurx cherio: People had already been trying to find an effective icon
> for years, from one that looked like a cigarette packet (Ubuntu 5.04)
> to
> a red pinwheel (5.10) to an orange square (6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10) to
> an
> SD card with a halo (Windows Vista) to a starburst (Ubuntu 8.04 and
> 8.10).

If the icon should not indicate upgrades, but rather a generic "urgent
message" then a red triangle with an eclamation mark would be more or
less universal.

E.g. interactions could be "queued into" such a triangle icon, and then
clicking would bring a menu with all the "pending" interactions.

I doubt anybody would not react to such a icon in the proper way, that
is, clicking on it to see what the system wants from us; but it would
avoid launching possibly heavy softwares unrequested.

Vincenzo