Your wish is fixed in Feisty Fawn, the current development version. Then I'll close this report. Thanks for your advice. I encourage you to make other suggestions to Ubuntu developers reporting here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+specs
Marco ** Changed in: adept (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- Wish: automatically download updated packages in the background https://launchpad.net/bugs/49966 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs