It is not configurable by everyday users... That setting is not explicitly supported. When it breaks, everyone who relies on it will be SOL.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <vincenzo...@yahoo.it>wrote: > Il giorno mer, 08/04/2009 alle 14.42 +0000, ddumont ha scritto: > > > > > > It sure feels like a battle. Do you simply not see the opposition > > here, or > > do you choose to ignore it? > > Why isn't such a drastic change in policy configurable by the user? > > You're writing software for users... aren't you? > > Once again, it IS configurable by users. Just a change in gconf. It's in > the comments above, search for "gconf". > > > The "battle" here, at least for me, is that I want defaults to be > elegant, coherent and unintrusive. This is because I want the high > usability of gnome *by default* and don't want to get back to the age > where every linux user had his own set of magic recipes to use for every > new installed system. There was a looong fight in the beginning to > change gnome like that, in the name of usability principles that where > not understood by people! Now gnome has "a direction". This change goes > in "the other direction" at least to my eyes. > > -- > [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
