System Settings doesn't show updates until you visit updates screen

Bug #1409069 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

ubuntu-system-settings 0.3+15.04.20150106~rtm-0ubuntu1,
Krillin #186 from ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09-proposed

Previously I would see "Updates available 2 >" in System Settings immediately below "Rotation Lock" and "Flight Mode".
Now that doesn't appear until I visit the "Updates" section in System Settings.

Steps to reproduce

1. Flash #186 on krillin
2. Open System Settings
3. Note no updates are available
4. Click "Updates" at bottom
5. Note that updates are available
6. Go back
7. Note UI changes to say "Updates available"

I would expect it to tell me on the front screen in System Settings that there are updates available - as it did previously, and as it does after you visit "Updates"

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#check-automatic-phone>: "The phone should check for updates automatically whenever there is an Internet connection, and at least 24 hours have passed since the last check (manual or automatic). It should not display any progress interface while checking, or any error if the check fails."

Tags: updates

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

as I recall this change was an interim step to resolve the jumpiness of the panel until a final solution is implemented

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
importance: Undecided → Low
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I had thought that checking for updates automatically was implicit, since it has long been implemented on PC. I was mistaken. Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates?action=diff&rev2=194&rev1=193>

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
description: updated
tags: added: updates
removed: apport-bug armhf utopic
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody
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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote :

With the updates rewrite, we'll show you the amount of click updates as well as image update, but only after you've visited the panel.

So this is an improvement, but what would really fix it is a click-update-service. But the argument against that is that it's probably not worth the investment as clicks are going away.

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

That “clicks are going away” may be an argument against showing the number of click updates. It is not an argument against showing the number of updates ever. I could report a separate bug just for snaps, but why?

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Won't Fix → Triaged
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Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange) wrote : Re: [Bug 1409069] Re: System Settings doesn't show updates until you visit updates screen

On 20 September 2016 at 10:17, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden>
wrote:

> That “clicks are going away” may be an argument against showing the
> number of click updates. It is not an argument against showing the
> number of updates ever.

​It was an argument against creating a service that gave us a number of
click updates in the background, as opposed to having to visit the panel.
We will show system image and snap updates according to spec.

Not sure what we can do here from a USS POV.

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