Comment 56 for bug 356152

dORSY,

I don't remember posting a work-around or a fix. I recall replying to
Adam Seitz's post because reading it gave me the impression that he
might benefit having access to additional configuration options that he
might not have known about; I then listed two options that I though he
might find interesting to play around with. I don't remember claiming
that a specific combination of settings fixed anything.

On my computers I tend to keep auto_launch unchecked and
regular_auto_launch_interval set to 0, and I have not been experiencing
any problems with receiving notifications with those settings in Ubuntu
10.04 Lucid Lynx, but I'm not using the intended UI methodology for
receiving notifications, so my lack of problems may not be very meaningful.

I would describe this a changing to a UI methodology when the problem
doesn't exist, not as a fix or a work-around for the problem, since the
design team's desired UI methodology is not preserved in my method. A
fix or work-around would achieve the desired behavior, instead of
changing to a more functional but different behavior.

I agree that update-notifier /should/ default to checking regularly
instead of weekly and would gladly vote that opinion at any poll that
will be reviewed by the design team. The concept of infrequent
notification of regularly checked updates confuses me, but I don't
experience it with my current settings.

On 05/11/2010 12:12 AM, dORSY wrote:
> Hello!
>
>> hit<alt> +<f2> then type "gconf-editor"...
>>
> This is a _workaround_. It won't fix the initial problem.
> We do not except this when we set the updates in our update-manager. It _is_confusing_. It will search for updates every day, but we _do_not_ get the notification of them. Then why to search for them? I think this _should_ be the _default_ behaviour of update-notifier. I really don't understand this one-week-delay thing at all.
> Thanks: *dORSY*
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