Notifier: Tray icon is counter-intuitive

Bug #396255 reported by Daniel Kulesz
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Harald Sitter

Bug Description

Binary package hint: adept

What is this "gearwheel" sort of updater Icon trying to tell us? Is there any metaphor linked with it, I mean - what does a gearwheel have to do with an update notifier?

Although the old icon in KDE 3 (this red warning sign) was not perfect (it is too alarming in case of non-critical security updates), it did at least catch most user's attention, telling them that something was not okay with their systems. If there is no better proposal for a new Icon, I would be pleased to see at least the old icon back in Ubuntu 9.10.

affects: adept (Ubuntu) → update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu)
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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

In line with upstream policy and using in kpackagekit this should really be a notification with actions which lives in the "i" icon on the systray.

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Since such a change would be too intrusive at this stage of development of Kubuntu 9.10 I will deploy an intermediate workaround of changing the icon to something that better fits the current usecases of update-notifier (which in 9.10 is recommendation of new packages).
The long-term solution however is, as suggested, to create a persistent notification rather than a short notification in combination with tray icon.

Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier-kde - 9.10ubuntu1

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update-notifier-kde (9.10ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Florian Reinhard ]
  * Respect kdesudo's exit code. Prevents tray icon from disappearing even
    though package installation failed for whatever reason.

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Bump standards version to 3.8.3
  * Add missing depends on install-package
  * Change codecTray icon form system-run to download which is much more
    suitable. This is an intermediate workaround until we can get rid of the
    tray (as seen for update notification in Kpk) (LP: #396255)
  * Invoke terminal commands using KToolInvocation rather than KProcess, regular
    cdms still get started via KProcess since we cannot use KTI for that.
    (LP: #323459)
  * Make the reboot action not act upon touches of /var/lib/update-notifier but
    once /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp is touched to prevent the
    reboot icon from appearing before update is done. As suggested by Michael
    Vogt (LP: #274001)
  * Add misc:Depends for debhelper
  * Add python dependency for lintian
  * Kill original maintainer field, does not exist for native packages
  * Change maintainer from Ubuntu core dev to Kubuntu developers
  * Revise version scheme to $SERIESubuntuX (works with dch and prevents lintian
    from thinking this is a NMU)

 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:35:53 +0200

Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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