The problem "was" that users were not applying their updates. Now the problem is that an annoying popup (or popunder) is jumping on our desktops, and the first problem was aggravated for some people posting here (the statistics of that is missing, as noted before).
Also, can you imagine the security absurd for a unexperienced user which gets used to the system popuping something AND asking for root privileges? How easy is to mimic that with a website popup? -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs