Ubuntu
update-notifier package

  1. Bug #947008
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 947008

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : update-notifier inappropriately uses an indicator menu

update-manager 1:0.156.6, update-notifier 0.118.1ubuntu1, Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1

On upgrading from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu Pangolin, Update Manager stopped working properly. Instead, an orange starburst icon started appearing in the menu bar whenever updates were available, with a menu containing miscapitalized "Show updates", "Install all updates", etc.

Supposedly this menu is present only when dconf com.ubuntu.update-notifier.auto-launch is set to False. But it is, and (as far as I know) always has been, set to True.

I don't know why the setting isn't working, but it is an example of the cost of implementing settings that shouldn't exist. There is no point in displaying a menu unasked that exists solely to provide access to a dialog box, instead of just opening the dialog box unasked. Showing updates, installing updates, and accessing the update settings are all the same number of clicks from the dialog as they are from the menu, 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 menu and the com.ubuntu.update-notifier.auto-launch setting should be removed. Fixing this would also resolve bug 249367, bug 265313, and bug 891421.