Comment 279 for bug 332945

Plain and simple... linux is always about choice. People are not going to update their system when the almighty and evil popup/popunder opens and says they should do it. It will almost 100% of the time be an unwanted annoyance window that open at unwanted times and aggravates users instead of helping them. You say that there are other instances of applications that open unwanted windows also. The same goes for them. Justifying bad interface design with other bad interface design is just laughable. There is literally no instance other than critical alarms where unsolicited windows are a good thing.

Persistent notifications are the obvious way to handle it.

Can anyone give a definite answer on how long the gconf command to revert to old behavior will be supported going forward? It is aggravating enough having a popup/popunder as the default option but will be utterly infuriating if it becomes the ONLY option in the future.

I have at built and/or upgraded 5-6 machines to Jaunty for people and have been setting them all to the old behavior at the users request after showing them new and old behavior. Even total greenies to linux have been agreeing that they didn't want unsolicited windows showing up whenever the computer felt like it.