>Are you being intruded when your >e-mail program notifies you in a persistent window that new mail is >ready (and maybe even bring up the program window unfocused)? Are you >being intruded when your IM client pops up a window when someone new >IM's you?
YES! Now please allow for the user to revert this behaviour. There is a reason that the feature for new IM messages to be restricted to only flashing in the system tray is part of every major IM program... I wish you would realise that. Feel free to run like crazy with your developer 'ideas' but when you do, provide a way for us users to turn the insanity off when we don't like it. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Brian Curtis <briancurtis...@gmail.com>wrote: > @ mac_v: It appears as if you're basing your judgement on the amount of > clicks it takes to perform actions. The amount of time it *really* > takes to make 4 clicks (making the assumption that you have to move the > mouse between each click), is no more than like 4 seconds. > > What makes these things "difficult", is that most of the time people > aren't staring at their taskbar tray, and any icon that pops up goes > unnoticed (most of the time). Making this how MPT has it , is something > to try out, and get used to. I can't imagine you knew how to run ubuntu > the first day you used it. Take the time to get used to the changes, > and adapt yourself to it, as Ubuntu thankfully makes this easy. > > In General: I really think that users should let the development teams > run away with their ideas, because a ton of people really want to see > changes to their OS that make it better (all in different ways), and the > people that complain about 2 vs 4 clicks or how "intrusive" these things > are, really need to step back a bit. Are you being intruded when your > e-mail program notifies you in a persistent window that new mail is > ready (and maybe even bring up the program window unfocused)? Are you > being intruded when your IM client pops up a window when someone new > IM's you? I bet you don't think so. > > Adapt to the changes, as you would if you were trying out a different > OS, or a new version of some software you use. It's really not that > difficult. > > -- > [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: New > Status in “update-notifier” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in update-notifier in Ubuntu Jaunty: Won't Fix > > Bug description: > I am referring to the removal up the update-notifier in the Gnome > notification area. The discussion of it is embedded in the thread headed > by: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027416.html > > Specific messages worth reading are: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027434.html > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027451.html > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027454.html > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027437.html > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027445.html > > Matthew Paul Thomas says that the desired behavior is: > > * When there are security updates, Update Manager will open and show > them (plus any other available updates) within a day. > > * When there are non-security updates, Update Manager will open and > show them *one week* after it was last opened (whether it was last > opened manually or automatically, and regardless of whether updates > were actually installed then). > > * When there are no available updates, Update Manager will not open > automatically at all. > > Desired by whom? And where was discussion of this change that effects the > entire Ubuntu community? Because some percentage of users don't apparently > understand that the notification area has meaning, we are not going to use > it for updates? Chow Loong Jin raised a valid point that if update > notification is now done by opening the entire update manager program, > perhaps evolution and similar should open their application UIs rather than > use the notification area. And there are concerns about unintended > functional consequences of this ill-conceived change, discussed in the > thread. > > Personally, I predict that opening the Update Manager window while people > are working will piss off a lot of users when it happens, and may result in > them wanting to disable automatic checking. Yes, that'll be highly > desirable, won't it? > > In other words, this change should be corrected, and a notification icon > should be displayed when updates are available. > > To disable the new behaviour and get the old behaviour use: > > gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false > > Take into account that this gconf change is not supported. > -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 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
