Gnome Software ignores software-properties-gtk "When there are other updates" setting and displays update notification too regularly

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On Ubuntu 16.04, using gnome-software 3.20.1+git20160426.1.a976144-ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1

software-properties-gtk has a setting for "When there are other updates" besides security updates. Setting this to "Display every two weeks" should prevent all non-security update notifications from bothering the user more often than every two weeks.

gnome-software categorizes some non-security updates as "OS Updates" and every day it displays the pop-up message "Software Updates Available Important OS and application updates are ready to be installed."

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/tEdDZ6Cy/15-bug-1580836-gnome-software-ignores-software-properties-gtk-when-there-are-other-updates-setting-and-displays-update-notification

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

One part of the issue where removing usb devices triggers notifications is fixed with that commit
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/?id=a39c27561f47e190fa8eb4164570c55f84928692
https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/48

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/GYVyCIeb/58-bug-1580836-gnome-software-ignores-software-properties-gtk-when-there-are-other-updates-setting-and-displays-update-notification

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Can confirm that adding or removing USB devices makes this insanely more annoying.

Thanks

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false

seems to mitigate this issue.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/773874/disable-gnome-softwares-notification-bubble-notify-osd-for-available-updates

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

With your permission I am going to raise this bug importance to "medium". As it is something quite annoying and recurring, which even happens multiple times during the same session.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

If the Update Notified is installed it should be the only daemon displaying that kind of notifications. So GNOME Software notifications should be disabled all together.

The question is if they should be disabled in the gnome-software package, or in the update-notifier one.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 1592382 since that bug is the tracking bug for the Stable Release Update that should stop gnome-software from showing update notifications.