[Bug 1033226] Re: No close option, only restart

[Matthew Brush]

Matthew Paul Thomas, I don't know about Unity, I've never used it (using
XFCE here), but it's kind of not a close button, more like a "dismiss"
button, if that makes anyone feel better. All dialogs should have a way
to close them without doing anything, always, even if it's like "Your
house is on fire, do you want me to email the fire department?", it
should still have a "No thanks" button or at the very least a window
manager close button.

But anyways, the patch was just a quick hack I made in 3 minutes because
I wanted to be able to close this dialog and with XFCE there's no way to
close it from the GUI otherwise, but if you run update-manager again it
shows the same nag dialog about restarting FWIW, it's how I tested the
patch. It seems like pretty OK behaviour considering I've already been
told I need to restart once and I willingly chose not to do so. Of
course the previous behaviour before it was decided to take the user's
computer hostage was probably better, but such is progress on the Linux
desktop lately; one step forward, two steps back.

Feel free to ignore the patch and/or come up with some other better way
that doesn't take my computer hostage, I'll gladly stop patching random
Python scripts on my system :)

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Title:
  No close option, only restart

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The latest updates to "software updater" in 12.10 has only given one
  option in the pop up after installing updates and that is to restart,
  where is my restart later or close option?

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Launching_automatically>:
  "Software Updater should launch automatically ... when ... security
  updates require a restart to finish installing, and it has been at
  least 24 hours since you were told about this; or ... non-security
  updates require a restart to finish installing, and the “When there
  are other updates” interval has passed since Software Updater was last
  open (either automatically or manually)."

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#restart>: "If no updates are
  installable, but a restart is required to finish installing previous
  updates, a “Software Updater” alert should appear, with text “This
  computer needs to restart to finish installing updates”, and
  “Settings…”, “Restart Later” and “Restart Now…” buttons."

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#alert>: "If appropriate, the
  alert should have secondary text: “The computer also needs to restart
  to finish installing previous updates.”"

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#After_installing>: "After
  installing, Software Updater should behave as if it has just finished
  a manual check for updates ... whether it be showing updates that
  remain uninstallable, showing that a restart is required, showing both
  at once, or showing that everything is up to date."

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