Comment 13 for bug 362561

Actually, update-manager does indeed have a tray icon still. It is just
disabled by default, as you don't really need to see updates all the
time, unless you're running a development release, or there are security
updates. And the default behavior when there are security updates is to
just open and let you push "Update".

Such a design doesn't really fit well with something like a
synchronization service, where you might not want to sync down the 2GB
of photos someone shared with you, while you're on a GPRS connection in
South America or something similar where doing so may cost you a
significant amount of money.

The applet isn't a permanent solution. It's a temporary salve to provide
the user with a way to access certain functionality until we are stable
and have more features implemented to deal with things like Mobile
Broadband connections more automatically.

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 15:22 +0000, Michael Rooney wrote:
> Yeah, I think the nautilus extension is an elegant place for some of
> these actions as well since it is context aware. If update manager can't
> even get a spot in the notification area, I don't think Ubuntu One needs
> one either ;)
>