I'm totally against automatic updates as well. My house internet connection is too slow to handle any download and be usable for anything else at the same time. This happens many times with me.... on Windows. Furthermore, as was mentioned, sometimes an update requires the program to restart and in the meanwhile the program becomes useless. If someone is doing something critical and that happens, it would be a disaster.
In my opinion automatic updates are worst than the popup. About the popup, I think if the developers think they need the popup, so be it. But please leave us the option of not having it. And for that I mean, at least, that one could simply turn off automatic update checking. For the moment this is not possible, I've tried and a popup appears saying "you need to manually check for updates!". The only way to disable all popups is to uncheck all types of updates (security, recommended...) at the update manger. This has solved the problem for me, but now in my desktop I'm in a more laborious situation for updating than in the servers, in which no update is automatically applied but I do it when I want whithout having to reset update preferences every time. Anyway, I think this popup will have the effect of people updating less their software, and having the habit of disabling the updates the first thing on installing Ubuntu, at least I had to do that in all machines I install for other people, but probably the developers have a more well studied scenario. I hope this is not a security-freek idea only. -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information 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
