Making Update Manager less obtrusive

[Jan Claeys]

Op vrijdag 27-02-2009 om 13:28 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Jordan
Mantha:
> Is there going to be *any* indicator that says "you have updates"
> without actually launching a program? I just ran into a little
> confusion as I popped open Synaptic to install something and was faced
> with 139 updates (I'm running Jaunty of course). So my computer knew I
> had updates but it failed to tell me about them, I find that a tad
> frustrating. It took me a little bit to remember that update-notifier
> was no longer around. So the question is, how can I get notified when
> I have updates available and also tell me how many? Do we have
> something like that in Jaunty yet?

Well, currently you can keep a terminal window open and run screen in
it, using one of the new ubuntu-* screen profiles provided by the
'screen-profiles' package...  :-P

Now seriously, I agree that we need 'update-notifier' back, or at least
the part that displays the "there are new updates" and "you need to
reboot" icons.
If I have to change an option somewhere to get them that's okay, but
just like you *I want to see this _very important_ information*.


-- 
Jan Claeys