PackageKit opens many “Updates are being installed” dialogues, which steal focus. “Do not show this again” button doesn't work.

[Grey Nicholson]

I have PackageKit installed, on Karmic, and updates set to install automatically.

When an update begins, many notify-osd windows open saying “gpk-update-icon: Updates are being installed”. No windows should open.

All of these windows appear in front of the active window and steal focus. (I'm using Metacity, uncomposited.) They should appear (if at all) behind the active window and not steal focus.

The dialogues have a button labelled “Do not show this again”. Clicking this dismisses the dialogue, but doesn't stop more copies of the same dialogue appearing.

[Cam Cope (ccope)]

Confirmed, although it appears to be a separate notification window, not notify-osd. AFAIK, notify-osd notifications are non-interactive, these have buttons and window decorations.

[Grey Nicholson (greytheearthling)]

When I filed the bug, notify-osd used dialogues for notifications that included mandatory action buttons, instead of non-interactive bubbles. This was by design; the design and/or the implementation may have changed.

If I recall correctly, gnome-globalmenu showed the dialogues as “notify-osd”.