Adept package updating is unnecessarily complicated

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From time to time, a red warning sign shows up in the icon list on my panel, telling me that new packages are ready for upgrade. The process of actually upgrading them is far to complicated.

How it SHOULD be:
  1) The red warning sign icon shows up in the panel.
  2) By hovering the Icon, the message should show "There are X packages to be upgraded" as now together with
         a) the list of packages to be upgraded if there are only a very few (this is typically the case)
         b) a button named "Upgrade now"
  3) By clicking "Upgrade now" the upgrade is performed in the background without the need for any user intervention.

This requires 2 clicks and not much consideration from the user.

How it is now:
  1) The red warning sign icon shows up.
  2) The user clicks on the icon
  3) The user clicks "Skip fetching list" (it has just been fetched - else the red warning icon wouldn't have appeared)
  4) The user clicks "Apply upgrades"
  5) The user clicks "Quit" when finished

This requires 4 clicks and forces the user to consider things that basically doesn't matter. Moreover it takes time if it needs to be done often. This is annoying.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Sounds like a good idea.
This is sort of a duplicate of bug 35882, but this goes further with the idea.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Using KNotify as bug 104411 suggests would allow us to do something like this. Marking as a duplicate of that.