I don't think the proposed behavior is bad. An unfocused window isn't too disturbing, at least for me.
Anyway, if security updates are considered so important, I would seriously think of making them be installed automatically by default. I think this is the best way of doing it for most users who don't want to pay attention to this kind of things (including myself). Expert users could set the settings manually to not automatic updates. If that would be done, I'd disable automatic updates if a laptop is running on batteries. -- Do not launch in background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical Desktop Experience Team, which is a direct subscriber. Status in “update-notifier” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: update-notifier I see that update-manager is supposed to open in the background, on the advice of the "Desktop Experience" team. Aside from the fact it appears in the foreground for my window manager, windows should not be opened even in the background for the following reasons: * It is very disruptive * It is completely different to the past behaviour * No other distribution does this _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

