[Bug 1246364] Re: update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu 13.10

[Matthew Caron]

Matthew,

While I appreciate your explanation, I agree with hackel about the
issue. Your usability studies may very well show what "normal" people
want, but I freely admit this is not me, hence why I dropped Ubuntu when
Unity came out (switched to Xubuntu) and don't run Xfwm on Xubuntu, but
rather IceWM because Xfwm's windowshading is broken. You can see my
system install instructions at:

https://github.com/mattcaron/misc_notes/blob/master/install.xubuntu.14.04

Now, while I don't profess to be the "normal" or "common" case, I think
that you need to recognize that one of the reason that people like me
use Linux is because we get it working and are happy with it, and when
folks change UI in order to make it "better" and it breaks our existing
user experience, it makes everyone very upset.

Please bring back the indicator tray notification icon.

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Title:
  update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu 13.10

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in The Update Notifier:
  New
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  update-notifier does not show a tray icon/notification in xubuntu 13.10 anymore. Instead the software updater window appears minimized, when updates are available.
  Additionally I tried to trigger the 'System Restart Required'-notification manually by adapting /var/run/reboot-required, but no notification was displayed (although it shows up in motd).
  As a side note: I got a 'there is something wrong with updates'-notification by removing update-notifier-common while update-notifier was running.

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