Comment 306 for bug 332945

Is this still up for discussion, or are we expected to just eat this one (in reference to the "Confirmed -> Won't Fix" status)?

There is NOTHING MORE ANNOYING, bar none, than having windows pop up uncommanded. Having windows open surreptitiously underneath everything I'm doing is sneaky, underhanded, and not likely to be noticed for days. The notification icon did its job, and it did it well. This new change does not serve the Ubuntu userbase well at all.

Here's the reason I am here posting this right now: I went searching for an existing bug report in hopes of determining why I hadn't seen an update notification since I installed Jaunty a week ago. I became quite concerned when I manually launched Update Manager and noticed a slew of Security Updates in there. "Why wasn't I informed of this?" I asked myself. "Why did I have to go manually LOOKING for these updates?"

There was no notification of the IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATES. None. If a window had popped up at some point of time over the past week, I probably closed it without realizing what it was. Since I got no further notification of important updates, I figure this new behaviour assumes that if I dismiss the popup/popunder window that comes up, then I don't care about the update, because there is no persistent notification. No icons, no indication of any kind that my system could be vulnerable to attack because of uninstalled security updates - security updates uninstalled because I was not aware that there were any to install.

Please bring back the notification icon. If for no other reason, so it can keep my volume control applet icon and network-manager icon company up there. They do get lonely. And I would sleep better at night knowing that, if there's no icon up there indicating important security updates, then my system is truly secure.