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Re: [Fwd: Re: Update manager]

 

Hello people,

My email may be asynchronous but i barely could follow this thread, yet i
wanted to say a few words on it since i fell on an interesting bug today on
launchpad.

My understanding of indicator-applet is that it is designed for apps-to-user
communication and apparently only used by "social" apps (email, IM, and
maybe soon some websites with Yim ?). Thus, i believe update-manager should
not use it at all, for the sake of consistency.

Updater-notifier uses an icon (orange/red) to notify the user of the
presence of updates. That's personally how i notice available updates, and,
after a few weeks of usage, i noticed it became natural to watch after it
for my family members (even if they still do their updates on a weekly
basis).

Notifications are, in my understanding, devoted to system-to-user
communication (power management, critical bugs on the desktop, etc) and to
synchronous app-to-user communication (currently played song, for instance).
I think update-notifier should shamelessly use it, and even with critical
notifications for notifying the availability of security updates. One
notification for saying updates available (one max / session), and another
to say it's finished, that seems ok to me.

Now, we have two coherent ways of notifying the user about these important
notifications. It's enough and we shouldn't disturb them more than that,
which brings me to this LP bug :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/200127

I added it to one hundred paper cuts because it's an old, easy-to-fix, and
critical usability bug. Currently, update-manager windows keep popping-up
when you're working on disturbing you, while they should pop-up unfocused
(or not popup at all, and the information be integrated in the original u-m
window, aswell as the tray icon's bubble kept consistant) and let you
breathe and keep working (or not working :p) on your desktop.

That was my 2 cents.

Have a nice day,

SD.

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