update-notifier should not be an overlay

Bug #857674 reported by Jeremy Sequoia
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update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The new update notifier is incredibly annoying. It should go back to being a status bar notification rather than a giant image that is always above all other windows.
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110920.5)
Package: update-notifier 0.117ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Tags: oneiric running-unity
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu) wrote :
tags: added: apport-collected oneiric running-unity
description: updated
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Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

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Jeremy Sequoia (jeremyhu) wrote :

It also doesn't go away when the package manager is done.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #856125, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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