Auto-launching of applications

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 23 February 2009 4:41:37 pm Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

Ah, ok. I thought this was a reference to the notify-osd popups that fade away 
all on their own...which would be a problem if you were AFK.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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