Whats this

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 22 January 2010 06:00:38 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> 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...

I rebooted and the little buggar went away :-) So happy for the fast start of 
Kubuntu. I was doing some maintenance on a friends XP box and you can make 
coffee and visit your grand parents if you have to reboot that ugly thing :-/

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Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen