Comment 133 for bug 332945

why the hatred towards notification icons???

i would like to have certain applications minimized and to just keep running in the background like> email clients, bittorrent client, im clients,< such apps dont deserve a place in the windows list unless they have some new event , when i desire to launch them as a window...

coming to the topic>
having the update-notification missing caused me to worry , thinking my upgrade wasnt proper, hence i came looking for the fix!!! but seems to be a new feature!

i feel that the update - notification icon should be displayed, similarly the restart required icon, as i would definitely miss the update availability

i usually hibernate/suspend the system with all the apps open, what happens if the pop-under is in a different workspace? or what happens if i dont close all apps to see the desktop and notice the pop-under? this is why we have the notification area> to notify of necessary events, it should not be an assumption that the user will always close all apps to look what has popped up behind the window? desktop is not the notification area!

and why checking for updates when u are not going to update immediately? remind after 1/2 weeks!!! if the security updates and the software updates are not in the same repos then this would be effective, but this is an unnecessary use of band width no matter however minuscule!!! what if the software i was using had a bug and the update available but i wasnt notified since i didnt no the fix was released!?!?

this is the worse case of reinventing the wheel as a sled!
   >>> THIS METHOD JUST USES THE DESKTOP AS THE NOTIFICATION AREA !!! <<<<<
even worse than the tiny icon in the panel !!! and doesnt even give the required attention the action deserves!?!?!

this is the worst idea i have heard come from the ubuntu team... love the notify-osd but the way u are implementing it is going to backfire... pls correct it before this lovely distro gets a bad name!!!