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[tacone <tacone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, I'd like to share my view on the issue, since I consider it a
drammatically serious one ;-).

As many people I loved the orange icon (and I loved the choice of icon
as well), and I'm much concerned about pop unders.

* If I am right, the issue with the orange icon is that not noticeable.
* The issue with popups, is they're intrusive. So time limits had to
be put on (the once a week limit)

Couldn't the two solution be used together ?

The orange icon appears immediately. The update manager pop ups after,
say, 2 days and maximum once a week.
That way novices would get the popup and expert users are likely to
never see it or at least see it less.

Also the orange icon would give the user an easy way to update if they
accidentally close the update manager (or purposely postpone the
upgrade).

The advantages:
* all the code required is likely to be already there.
* has no disadvantage for beginners
* is likely to appeal expert people at least a little bit more.

Note that even if this solution is considered I still think the popup
is a very bad choice.