Should add itself to the gnome-session automatically?

[Thomas Beckett]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:00:44 -0600, Jerry Haltom
<jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com> wrote:
> Package: upgrade-notifier
> Version: 0.35-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> I don't know if it is even appropiate to file a bug against this package
> at this point in time... however:
> 
> It would be nice if upgrade-notifier added itself to the default gnome
> session by default. Having to run it manually at login is a bit tedious,
> and I can imagine it being desired to have it running all the time on a
> typical desktop machine.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-3-686-smp
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
> 
> Versions of packages upgrade-notifier depends on:
> ii  dbus-1-utils       0.22-1ubuntu2         simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libart-2.0-2       2.3.16-5              Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii  libatk1.0-0        1.8.0-1ubuntu2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libbonobo2-0       2.8.0-0ubuntu2        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii  libbonoboui2-0     2.8.0-0ubuntu1        The Bonobo UI library
> ii  libc6              2.3.2.ds1-13ubuntu2.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libgamin0          0.0.18-0ubuntu1       Library for the gamin file and dir
> ii  libgconf2-4        2.8.1-0ubuntu1        GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libglade2-0        1:2.4.0-1             Library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0       2.5.6-0ubuntu1        The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnome2-0        2.8.0-0ubuntu5        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
> ii  libgnomecanvas2-0  2.8.0-0ubuntu1        A powerful object-oriented display
> ii  libgnomeui-0       2.8.0-0ubuntu1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
> ii  libgnomevfs2-0     2.8.2-0ubuntu1        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
> ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.5.5-0ubuntu2        The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii  libice6            6.8.1-1ubuntu4        Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii  liborbit2          1:2.12.0-0ubuntu1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
> ii  libpango1.0-0      1.6.0b-0ubuntu1       Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  libpopt0           1.7-4                 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii  libsm6             6.8.1-1ubuntu4        X Window System Session Management
> ii  libx11-6           6.8.1-1ubuntu4        X Window System protocol client li
> ii  libxml2            2.6.11-3ubuntu1.1     GNOME XML library
> ii  xlibs              6.8.1-1ubuntu4        X Window System client libraries m
> ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.2-3ubuntu1      compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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As I understand it upgrade notifier does run on startup - it just
doesnt show the icon until there are updates available