mac_v wrote: > What is intriguing with Graeme's user scenario is, why have the users > been ignoring the window which was popping up? > > Why were they not updating when the window opened and dismissing it > instead?
On all computers I've installed Karmic (and Jaunty before) the update-manager windows opens in the background (either in minimized mode, or behind other windows, or on the wrong desktop). Since Linux users aren't used to closing one program before opening another (and I believe Windows users don't really have to do that any more in recent Windows versions), the user never knows there are updates available, because they always have at least one other application on top. Opening the update-manager window on top of all other windows is not good either, since it disrupts the user's workflow (which would end up with the window being closed by the user). I believe the developer(s) that advocated the new behavior have a different workflow, and thus doesn't have any problems with it. On the other hand, when the new behavior was still in discussion, they promised us that they would study the ratio of people updating regularly, compare with the previous ratios, and revert if it proved unsuccessful. I still haven't seen those numbers elsewhere, and up now we can only get anecdotal evidence that it doesn't work. Eventually, it all depends if you find it important or not that Ubuntu users install security updates or not, and if you don't there's no way any more comments on this bug report are going to make you admit it if you were wrong (especially if, at an individual level, you prefer the new behavior for whatever reasons). -- [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
