On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 09:15 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/05/2012 09:01 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:30:01 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: > > > >> Where is it with f16/G3? > > What is "G3"? > > > >> I once saw that poor excuse of a popup at the bottom of the screen > >> saying something about updates available. > >> > >> But if that all there is, who watches there screen all the time???? > > What exactly is your question? > > > > Normal updates are being checked for less frequently than before anyway. > > I don't mind if I miss the notification. I'm glad that with GNOME Shell > > there is less activity in panels. The bottom panel suffers from a few bugs > > currently, and e.g. finished print job notifications pile up in it. > > > > If I want to apply updates "right now", I type "Alt+F1", "upd" and RETURN > > to start the Software Update tool. > > I want a constant reminder like we had in G2 (Gnome 2). I might not get > to doing the update for hours or even a day, if it is not an important > update, but I don't want to forget it. Right now, I just don't see the > update message. Since the (Dec 8), I have seen it all of once. I have > determined that there are updates by running "yum update" in a root shell. > > If there are updates, I want to know about it. If they are important > bug fixes or critical security fixes I want to know that too. > > This "flash in the pan" just does not do it for something that could be > really important.
Once those pop-ups appear and disappear, there's a retractable notification bar that they retreat to. Move the cursor to the lower right corner to raise it. It looks like the permanent-notification extension hasn't been packaged, at least for F15. > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org