Update Manager in 9.04

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 04/28/2009 02:56 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Damien Hull <dhull at digital-overload.net>
>> wrote:
>>> The update manager just pops up instead of the old notification. Is
>>> anyone else seeing this? I don't like this at all...
>> 
>> My new hated ubuntu bug
>> 
>> Fix it with this ->
>> gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
>> 
>> Then get a load of this discussion (bring a lunch, but don't eat much
>> 'cause it ain't appetizing)
>> http://tinyurl.com/csy6hr
> 
> Not only does the thing just pop up whenever it damn well pleases, but
> it doesn't actually even include the most recent security updates. Today
> on two systems I had to manually click the 'Check' button in order to
> see the apport security update options that I had already seen in Hardy.
> Not to mention that the thing pops up like a bad spamvert on top of
> already running windows. I thought that I'd left 'helpers' like this
> behind long ago when I abandoned windwows (MS Office 'Clippy' & pop up
> spam advertisements on customers infected systems).
> 
> The intention may have been well meant, but the end result is *very*
> irritating. I'm off to http://preview.tinyurl.com/dmmq62 to apply the
> bandaid... :-0

Thankfully KDE behaves better.  I didn't even see any discussion of this on 
the devel lists.  I'm not even sure it's a completely bad idea, but you 
shouldn't have to be a geek to change the behaviour...