Comment 52 for bug 356152

I have been running my updates manually everyday because my update notifier does not notify me. I am not a savvy Linux user. I am using Ubuntu because it makes this kind of thing easier for me. I would expect an updater to notify me of updates (daily as I have set it to) regardless of whether I ran it "Manually" or not.

I read the entire string on this bug and I understand the "7 day" Window... but it's horrible from an end-user perspective. I would really like to be notified about ALL updates ... I selected that in the update-notifier - Here are my settings:
* Important security updates (checked)
* Recommended updates (checked)
* Pre-Release updates (un-checked)
* Unsupported updates (un-checked)

* Check for updates "Daily" (checked).
 - Only notify about available updates

* Show new distribution releases: "Normal releases"

If you want to provide a set of check boxes in the GUI for severity checking that might work well. You could leave the default settings as "Security" and provide some optional check boxes for "Features" and "Fixes" or however Ubuntu categorizes these things. You have to understand the impression being made is "Wow! The updates doesn't work? What else is broken?"