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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #332945 (update-notifier-autolaunch)
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 332945

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : Re: [Jaunty] Removal of Update Notifier is WRONG

"Instead, Update Manager should open automatically, unfocused and in the background. (When opened manually, Update Manager should still open focused and frontmost as usual.) "

So a pop-under is a solution for system upgrades? It seems to me rather a way to emulate one of the most annoying web spamming techniques on the desktop. Changes like these should have a broader discussion IMHO.