update-manager behaviour [was: Auto-launching of applications]

[Sam Tygier]

----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
>That's in fact what I'm afraid of. An attempt to increase the
>visibility of updates will have the very opposite effect and make
>people disable it altogether, which is much worse!
<snip>
>i. e. it's almost certain that
>you started your day and have actual work to do. I never apply updates
>at that time, since it is disruptive and also makes my computer slow,
>and they also often require a session restart.

Maybe it could be made less annoying.

using nice and ionice maybe it is possible for the updates to have no
noticeable impact on other tasks. as a benchmark it would be nice for
it not to interfere with playing an online video on a low spec machine.

programs like BOINC have a run when computer is idle mode, ie when the
computer has been idle for n seconds start running, when i start typing
again pause it..

or how about a do these updates when i shut down the computer button.
(with a safety check so that it does not happen if a low battery
triggers a shutdown on a laptop).

sam tygier