Auto-launching of applications

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:25:24AM -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 7:04:04 am Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:49:46PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > > additionally it would be intresting to know why the reboot icon isnt
> > > shown anymore after you get critical updates, that seems like a security
> > > risk ... you do an update and get the info to please reboot, but want to
> > > go on with your daily work and click on "i will reboot later" then
> > > forget about it during the day and run with an insecure system because
> > > there was no reminder anymore ... 

> > At some point after upgrading to the new notification system, I'm
> > reasonably sure that I got a dialog inviting me to restart now vs.
> > later. It wasn't a notification icon, but that didn't mean it was
> > invisible.

> And if you were AFK at the time?  Or are these "please reboot" notifications 
> expected to go to the applet that logs special (?) notifications?

It's a persistent dialog window, it doesn't matter if you were away at the
time.  I don't know if there's a "special notification" applet involved in
the dialog processing.

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