Mark, Perhaps we should have a message of some sort either when the app launches or in the release notes (many users however don't read it) letting the user know what is going on. This would help reduce confusion as to why there is now (as opposed to pre Jaunty) a running program awaiting input on their desktop that they did not launch. Otherwise they may be reminded of malware on Windows. :(
Of course I am one of the users who on Windows disables auto update and does it manually, in my case this is primarily because it decides to just reboot your system whenever it wants, which is incredibly disruptive behaviour and has resulted in data loss on many occasions. A registry key can change that behaviour as well, but you must know it exists. This just reminded me of a related issue, is there a smart way to disable automatic downloading of apt packages lists? For users who are on mobile broadband they could easily eat up a large chunk of their monthly bandwidth allowance especially if they are running the development release. On my system the Packages files are about 44MB and over a month just daily downloading would surpass 1.3GB. Most mobile broadband plans in the US only allow 5GB/month before they just outright cancel your account. Other countries may have even lower limits and/or charge per MB. I noticed it does not run if you are battery power but doesn't actually check to see what type of internet connection you are using, maybe it could find out somehow via network manager. Perhaps I should file a bug on apt about this issue? Please don't get me wrong I'm all for users updating as frequently as possible. Chris -- Do not launch in background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
