Ubuntu
update-notifier package

  1. Bug #332945 (update-notifier-autolaunch)
  2. Comment #205

Comment 205 for bug 332945

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Dick Thomas (xpd259-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

I think it's amazing that almost every single post on on this bug
doesn't want this new method, and thats just the people who
have taken the time to find/write a bug report
and yet what the users wanted is as good as ignored

pop up/under box's are evil
if a window pops up with out there been a reason for it
e.g i've just clicked a dialog
I assume its an pop under/over from a webpage and it gets closed before its even loaded

a simple notification bubble been shown every x min is more then enough
to notify a user to update with out intruding on the users desktop

I also use ubuntu for a digital photo/media frame i built
so having a dialog pop up is going to ruin a fantastic photo frame