[Bug 549799] Re: [LUCID] update-notifier no longer shows update icon even with auto_launch=false

[Felix Dreissig]

With the introduction of Unity in 11.04, the behaviour of update notification has again changed fundamentally: The notification area icon was entirely dismissed and the Update Manager now shows up in the Unity launcher on new updates (with its window in the background).
I'm not sure about other desktop environments like GNOME 3 or Xfce, but for the "official" Ubuntu desktop this bug no longer seems to be an issue.

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Title:
  [LUCID] update-notifier no longer shows update icon even with
  auto_launch=false

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  As of recent updates, update-notifier no longer shows the icon even
  after executing:

    gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

  It was bad enough when the highly controversial and widely criticized
  (Bug 332945) change was made to remove the notification icon by
  default, but now it is not showing up at all, even when the user
  explicitly wants it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Mar 27 15:26:32 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: update-notifier 0.99
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=C
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64

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