[Bug 1293445] Re: "The computer needs to restart to finish installing updates." notification should have a user defined timer to ask next time

[Paul Crawford]

Exactly! This is not Windows - we should not be pestered incessantly by something like this because we might have done some update as part of a larger number that needs a reboot, but we have a good reason for not doing so for some time (running jobs, remote users also logged in, etc).
At most, if you say 'later' it should go quiet until there are actually more updates applied.

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Title:
  "The computer needs to restart to finish installing updates."
  notification should have a user defined timer to ask next time

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Whenever an update that needs a restart happens, a windows pops up saying this:
  The computer needs to restart to finish installing updates. This has three options: 1) Settings 2) 2) Restart later and 3) Restart Now...

  If the "restart later" option is selected, this dialog box pops up
  back in around 10 minutes- the user has no control over this timing.

  Rather than this, the "restart later" should have a different option
  like "Remind me in xx minutes" and the timer should be user-defined.

  lsb_release -a

  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
  Release:	14.04
  Codename:	trusty

  apt-cache policy update-manager
  update-manager:
    Installed: 1:0.196.7
    Candidate: 1:0.196.7
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.196.7 0
          500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  GsettingsChanges:
   com.ubuntu.update-manager show-details true
   com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 484
   com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1395601199
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-17 (7 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140316)
  Package: update-manager 1:0.196.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.39-generic 3.13.6
  Tags:  trusty
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data
  _MarkForUpload: True

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