Buchan worded it all much better than my own reply. So i leave it with only this:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > See mutray (for KDE at least) and mdk-check-update-gnome (works in KDE > and GNOME, and probably the rox desktop too), both in contrib. It would be a shame not to just enable these by default or at least enable it if some visible checkbox is clicked. d.