Whats this

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Friday 22 January 2010, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 21 January 2010 08:58:13 pm Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > On Friday 22 January 2010 01:17:13 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > > On Friday 22 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 21 January 2010 22:32:39 Reinhold Rumberger 
wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 21 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > > > > just noticed an icon in the system tray. I have no idea
> > > > > > what it is. There's no indication when hovering and
> > > > > > nothing happens when I click on it. Pic attached.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Last time I checked (before I uninstalled it), the thing
> > > > > had a tooltip that was pretty self-explanatory...
> > > > 
> > > > Oh yes - now it has a tool-tip saying "Loading cache". I
> > > > wonder what cache and why?
> > > 
> > > Mark Greenwood's reply has a clue to that: it's the package
> > > cache and it does it to find out whether there are any
> > > updates available it can annoy you with...
> > 
> > Yes I guess he's right. Although I did a "sudo aptitude update
> > && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" it doesn't go away. I'll
> > re-relogin tomorrow
> > 
> >  (doesn't happen that often) and then it's probably gone)
> 
> I run Kubuntu here, and that icon isn't telling you that updates
> are available, its just the stupid update app icon stuck in the
> system tray.  :-D
> 
> Normally I click on it and it just goes away, but sometimes it
> hangs around for a bit.  I wouldn't worry about it.

Actually, KPackageKit uses that icon to indicate that it's working on 
the package cache and KDE notifications to annoy you about the 
updates...
IIRC, the icon also displays the amount of updates available, if any. 
I've seen it in Gnome, too, so it might have something to do with 
KPackageKit's patchy nature...
Either way, you can ignore it - you'll get all the notification you 
can stand if there are updates...

  --Reinhold