Comment 386 for bug 332945
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| Martin (martin615) wrote Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information | #386 |
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Matthew, Mark, (or anyone else from the design team)
I'm interested to know where you are going with security updates long term in Ubuntu.
The old behaviour was broken because it cluttered the notification area and most users didn't understand it etc.
But the current behaviour is IMHO also broken. Now you bring up a window, with technical jargon that most users couldn't care less about, that interrupts the users flow much more than the notification area ever did.
Why simply not update the system automatically? At least by default. It is not like users who won't do anything other than press "Install Updates" as soon as the window appears can't change this behaviour if they really want to. And I suspect a large part of the users that have technical know how to understand what the window says will most likely press "Install Updates" as soon as it appears also.