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update-manager package

Unity Launcher inconsistent with update-manager

Bug #1036891 reported by Claudio Arseni

This bug report was converted into a question: question #205861: Unity Launcher inconsistent with update-manager.

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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Robert Roth

Bug Description

When update-manager starts, I can select the icon on the Launcher, but if I choose to don't install one of the available update the number of packages that willl be installed is modified only in the update manager window and not in the Launcher icon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Wed Aug 15 00:20:55 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Related branches

lp:~evfool/update-manager/lp1036891
Didier Roche-Tolomelli: Approve
Diff: 40 lines (+0/-13)
2 files modified
UpdateManager/UnitySupport.py (+0/-11)
UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py (+0/-2)
lp:ubuntu/raring-proposed/update-manager
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Claudio Arseni (claudio.arseni) wrote :
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BenHagan (smooth-texan) wrote :

Support question not a bug.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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BenHagan (smooth-texan) wrote :

Wrong bug...my bad...

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote :

It may be intentional that the Launcher icon shows you the number of available updates. That's how it strikes me, but I haven't read up on it. Thanks.

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BenHagan (smooth-texan) wrote :

I can confirm what you're seeing, however I think it's more the intended functionality rather than a bug.

I'll set this bug to invalid for now. If you want to do some reasearch on it and continue to pursue the bug, feel free to comment again.

Thanks!

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BenHagan (smooth-texan) wrote :

And what I mean by invalid is incomplete.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

I believe the number on the launcher indicates that certain number of packages are available to install, either you select less or more. Moving to update-manager since its the application's decision to show what it wants.

affects: unity (Ubuntu) → update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Claudio Arseni (claudio.arseni) wrote :

Thanks for your comments, but I disagree about that, because when update-manager starts download selected packages the Launcher icon shows a progress bar for selected packages, not for all available packages, but the number on it remain the same.

Not sure if it's intentional or not, but I think it's not consistent.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I've updated the specification. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates?action=diff&rev2=83&rev1=82> "The Launcher icon for Software Updater should not use a badge, because (unlike with opt-in updates) the number of system updates available is not interesting."

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Roth (evfool)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.175

---------------
update-manager (1:0.175) raring; urgency=low

  [ Eric Williams ]
  * German translation fix (LP: #1070289)

  [ Stephen Kraemer ]
  * UpdateManager/Dialogs.py: made Settings... button open software-properties
    non-modally. (LP: #1058070)

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * Remove package count badge from the unity launcher (LP: #1036891)
  * Added 6px border to the button box to align the buttons with the contents
    above (LP: #1081099)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * debian/rules:
    - do not call dh_auto_build as as it call py2 even when its not
      supposed to (LP: #1089808), thanks to Jean-Baptiste Lallement
  * fix missing "Architecture" when writing out the fake dpkg-status
    file in the tests (LP: #1089793)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:09:13 +0100

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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