Comment 38 for bug 53868

I am using 10.04 and prefer the 'old style' of notifier, but find it is now "unreliable".

Sometimes it shows a package manager is running (grey start) where there is no such activity (or long after there was), and often (for example, today) when security updates are available it shows the grey arrow that starts synaptic, when it should be showing the red arrow that starts the update manager (today, it was firefox among others that needed updating).

At other times it works correctly.