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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #332945 (update-notifier-autolaunch)
  2. Comment #67

Comment 67 for bug 332945

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Removal of Update Notifier is WRONG

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 20:26 +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
>
> No, they pop in the background, unfocused. I personally don't think this
> is the right behaviour either, but at least it's not disruptive in that
> way. Nobody would be insane enough to try that ;)

So hidden under all of the other windows that literally cover very
square inch of my screen?

In any case, I don't think my experience was that it was popping up
under other windows. I saw the update-manger up on top of all of my
other windows.

I just fail to see how unsolicited application pop-ups that cover a
major portion of my screen real-estate is good UI design. Maybe a
lesson about "pop-ups" needs to learnt from the popularity of web
browser pop-up blockers. Surely that lesson is not being ignored, yes?

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