Comment 466 for bug 332945

R. Steve McKown: All except one of your points have been addressed several times previously. The one that hasn't been is "Bubbles dismiss themselves." In notification-daemon, that was dependent on the bubble (expire_timeout). But a bubble that dismissed itself (as they always do in Notify OSD) would be no notification at all, if it opened at a time of day when you were never at the computer; and conversely, a bubble that didn't dismiss itself would be more annoying than an alert box, because it would float on top of every window.

Chauncellor: Thanks for the kind words, but I'm under no illusions that the current presentation is perfect. :-) We can improve the settings to encourage automatic updates, make the window less annoying by making its default size smaller, improve its layout and text, and reduce the number of windows that open by merging the progress window into the main window. See <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates> and <https://code.launchpad.net/update-manager> if you're interested in helping out.