update-notifier inappropriately uses an indicator menu if xubuntu-desktop is installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Brian Murray |
Bug Description
update-notifier 0.118.1ubuntu1, apport 1.93-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1
1. Install xubuntu-desktop (for example, for someone else to use on the same computer).
2. Log in to a Unity session.
3. Trigger a crash (e.g. at a terminal, "sh -c 'kill -SEGV $$'").
4. Wait for software updates to become available.
What happens:
3. A red explosion menu appears, and a notification bubble saying "An application has crashed on your system (now or in the past). Click on the notification icon to display details."
4. An orange starburst menu appears, with miscapitalized items "Show updates", "Install all updates", etc.
What's wrong with this:
* There's no point in showing a menu that contains only an item to open an alert box, instead of just opening the alert box.
* No, it wasn't an application that crashed, it was a terminal command.
* "(now or in the past)" is awkward.
* "Click on the notification icon"? What's a "notification icon"?
* We know that a tiny orange starburst isn't enough to get people to install updates promptly.
* It doesn't follow the design specification in either case.
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This bug has two causes. First, there exists a dconf key com.ubuntu.
This is an example of the cost of implementing settings that shouldn't exist. Dealing with errors, showing updates, installing updates, and accessing the update settings are all the same number of clicks from the respective dialog as they are from the menus, if any other windows are in front of the dialog when it opens, or even fewer clicks if no windows are in front of it.
The indicator menus and the com.ubuntu.
Related branches
- Dennis Kaarsemaker: Pending requested
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Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: whoopsie-daisy |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Please do not remove com.ubuntu. update- notifier. auto-launch, it is terribly annoying to have a dialog pop up when you are working on other tasks. The icon is nice in that it alerts that new updates are available, and I should install them as soon as I get a chance.