Curses, our secret plan has been uncovered! Canonical is indeed trying
to degrade Ubuntu, make it less secure, and drive average business and
personal users away. The orange star icon was a paragon of obviousness
and clickability, so it just had to go.
But seriously, we did not design this behavior yesterday on the back of
a napkin. We discussed it publicly at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in
December. It's part of a long-term plan to clean up the notification
area, and in particular to stop using it for things that it cannot
actually recognizably notify people of. If you have learned to both
notice and recognize the orange star icon, then I'm sorry that skill
will no longer be required, but we think making update installation more
obvious will make Ubuntu more secure for more people.
Of course the new behavior is a bit rough around the edges, but the
problems are fixable. As I write this, the auto-opening interval is
being changed (now that we know it works) from two days to seven. Compiz
needs fixing so that when windows open unfocused (as Update Manager does
when it opens automatically) they're in the background too. And any
patches to reduce Update Manager's memory footprint are more than
welcome.
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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[Jaunty] Removal of Update Notifier is WRONG
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945
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