update-notifier & non-admin users

[Martin Pitt]

Matthew Paul Thomas [2008-10-21 18:52 +0100]:
> More generally, we need to move away from the pattern of putting tiny
> icons in the panel and expecting people to click them to do something
> urgent. For example, if an updated Firefox will start malfunctioning
> unless you relaunch it, that should be an alert against the Firefox
> window with "Relaunch" and "Quit" buttons, not a tiny icon in the panel
> that opens a window containing instructions to follow.

That particular case is solved in a better way now, actually. Firefox
itself gets a yellow notification bar which tells you about the need
to restart, and a restart button. So that particular update-notifier
not should just disappear completely IMHO.

Martin

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