Install Updates button in Details panel leads to redundant check for updates

[Dylan McCall]

When I open the Details settings panel, I can click the Install Updates button on the bottom right when updates are available. When I click that button, Update Manager opens and (as is the default behaviour) begins checking for updates. This does not fit nicely with the label on the button, and the activity is redundant: the system already checks for updates when the Details panel is opened, and the button says "Checking for Updates" while that happens.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, do you have any suggestion on what it should do instead? just drop that button,feature?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Matthew, do you have any opinion on that? Seems to be a side effect of the "software updater" auto-index-update-on-start change that happened in quantal

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

I'm not Matthew, of course, but I wonder if the auto-update could kick in only if it's been >5 minutes since the last check? :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does gnome-control-center really trigger and update or is it just checking the status (which is taking time)?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

In this context, the "Install Updates" button is a non-sequitur. Please hide/remove it altogether.

(If it notified you only of new Ubuntu versions, and was immediately below the Ubuntu version number, then it might make sense.)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

This button is now labeled "Software Updates" so isn't confusing anymore.