I dont think the problem is the new NotifyOSD. Personally I think the new "notifyosd" is great. The thing of question here is the "update-notifier" package. So lets have a look at that one. The two mainly discussed things are the bubbles and the icons. For the bubbles they should and have been replaced in favour of using the new notifyOSD, and they have. So fare so good, I like the notifyOSD so I like that change. The other thing were the icons. Claim is that many people ignore it. [1]. So you introduce the popunder. Maybe (many) people even like it. But what I dont understand is how that leads to the reasoning the the icons must leave? Whats wrong with keeping the icons? You have removed the bubbles in favour of notifyOSD, do the icons really hurt that much?
What I would suggest: 1. Open the popunder as a default for all those that ignored the icons before. <b>(Already Implemented)</b> 2. keep the icons (parallel to the popunder) <b>(needs to be reimplemented)</b> 3. add a check box to the update-manager popunder that says something like: <b>"Open update-manager automatically when updates are available." </b> and next to that one a button: <b>"More"</b> or <b>"Advanced"</b>. When the user clicks that one the "Software Sources" Update tab opens and you have two more options: "Open update-manager automatically when updates are available." and "Show update-manager icons in the pannel to indicate its status." <b>(needs to be implmented)</b> Then you would realize both parties wishes. That would be a real choice. The people who notoriously dont update have their popunder and therefore a thing they wont ignore like the icons and second the people who know what the icons are for have their icons and can disable the popunder if they want. Plus, those that have been ignoring the icon before can still can keep ignoring it since they have the popunder. Now what do you think? Implement it for Karmic and maybe provide a backport for Jaunty or a PPA. And then we can finally close this bug, hopefully. Cheers Lanoxx [1] Personally Im not sure if the message of the notifyOSD (telling you there are updates available) and the icons would appear at the same time would be so hard to put into a relation with each other, but anyway. -- [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