[Bug 779382] Re: update-notifier not visible under unity

[Steve Langasek]

After an upgrade at the beginning of September, it appears that this
same issue affects unity-2d.  Prior to around September 2, unity-2d
continued to show the update-notifier "updates available" icon on the
panel.

This is a critical issue; although the default behavior of update-
notifier is to spawn a window instead of to show the icon on the panel,
many users (myself included) strongly prefer the in-panel notification
to the auto-launching of update-manager and will as a result have
overridden this default.  (In fact, this was a sufficiently frequent
question that the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release notes document for users how
to override this behavior.)  As a consequence, upon upgrade to oneiric
these users will silently cease to receive notifications of updates,
including security updates.

One of two things needs to happen here for release.  Either the unity
/unity-2d change that causes the update-notifier icon to no longer show
up on the panel needs to be reverted (which IMHO would be preferred
given that it respects the users' explicitly declared preference for
receiving notifications), or update-notifier needs somehow to be able to
detect that its panel icon isn't going to display, and fall back to
auto-spawning the window in spite of the user preference.

I'm assigning this bug to the Ubuntu Desktop team since I have no idea
what the rationale is for this most recent change in unity behavior and
hopefully someone there does.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)

** Also affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)
       Status: Confirmed

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Title:
  update-notifier not visible under unity

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “unity-2d” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “update-notifier” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  Hi,

  although there is a running update-notifier process, I don't see any
  indication of available new packages or security updates when using
  the new unity desktop.

  regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-notifier 0.111ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun May  8 10:41:21 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-02 (5 days ago)

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