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[Chauncellor <332945@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to come clean.

After all the garbage that I cannot believe I wrote in the last two
years I must admit that the current model far outstrips the previous
one.

While it sports some interesting downsides to consider I feel that the
model works somewhat beautifully. As of Maverick there is a pop-under
window that presents itself - When the user decides to update, it's
smooth and unnoticable enough that you may continue your activities.
Should a restart be required, there's no pop-up window. There's no
bubble, notification, MS Bob bouncing around. There's a simple, easy-to-
see box in the update-manager that informs the user and presents a nice
little button. Also, the power indicator glows red. Simple, beautiful.

With Unity around the corner I imagine this will get even better. I'm
guessing that there will be a shiny little launcher in the left panel
that will sexy up the process a little bit. And with the smaller, iconic
paradigm there will be far less clutter.

I admit that I was the victim of stubborn resistance to change - even
when I thought I was sensible enough to detect the behavior. I would
like to thank Ayatana for the great and hard work being done. I would
also like to thank and apologize to Matthew Paul Thomas; it is the mark
of a great worker to be able to bear the weight of unfounded flames and
you've shouldered that for a long time now.

I'm marking this bug as not affecting me: The model has outclassed any
other forms of updating that I've yet encountered.

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Title:
  [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying