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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #331054 (auto-launch-master-bug)
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 331054

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 331054] [NEW] Do not autolaunch

Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> I see that update-manager is autolaunched, on the advice of the "Desktop
> Experience" team. This is clearly the wrong thing to do for various
> reasons:
>
> * It is very disruptive
>
 In future, this window will open in the background and call for
attention when the user has time.

> * It is completely different to the past behaviour
>
In many cases, we want to change current behaviour, so unless past
behaviour is something we urgently want to hang on to we won't be too
influenced by it.
> * No other distribution does this
>
We've done many other things that no other distribution did, and that
they now do. I'm rather proud of that tradition :-)

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Mark