I can certainly agree with and appreciate that. It is true that the notification area in the average Ubuntu installation is nowhere near as cluttered as the system tray in the average Windows installation, and it is better to solve a problem *before* it becomes a problem rather than after. I'd like to think that Ubuntu users are a cut above Windows users, and that we don't simply ignore icons we don't understand. With that said, however, I also understand that when a Windows user chooses to (or is persuaded to) try out Linux, Ubuntu is usually the distro of choice - and for good reason. While a cluttered notification area is not very ideal, forcing windows to pop up uncommanded in the user's face is truly bad form - the sort of thing I thought GNU/Linux was above. The average Windows convert would likely panic, thinking that he or she had contracted a virus; and the average Linux user would start having Windows flashbacks.
I realize I'm preaching to the choir here, and that the people who *really* need to hear this are no longer listening, but... If Ubuntu is going to continue to serve as the "bridge" between the Windows and Linux communities, then we really need to set better examples than this, and not give in to the "Windows way" of doing things. -----Original Message----- From: Chauncellor Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:13:25 -0000 Loïc Martin: I believe that, while it was certainly a plus for them to clean up the notification dialogue, the end goal was to make updates more noticeable and present for the average user that would probably just ignore the icon in the tray. Nine out of ten Windows machines that I fix have a "swamp" of icons in the tray, and the customers that I handle almost always don't know what any of them do. While there is certainly a lesser amount of icons in Ubuntu, it would still probably be ignored just as much. -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying 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