Ubuntu’s update prompt is a notification in the ordinary English sense
of the word.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines#Normal_window> So
I guess the dconf keys predate update-notifier’s change from using FDo
notifications to launching update-manager, but I don’t think that
requires their name or description to be changed. (It is perverse,
though, to have a boolean setting whose name starts with “no-”.)
I think the bug here is that setting “Automatically check for updates:”
to “Never” has caused “When there are security updates:” to become
blank+disabled, suggesting that there will be no prompts when really
there will be. This doesn’t happen in 14.04, so I guess someone changed
it when they realized the current menu options are only relevant to
automatic checks. But besides the case where updates became known before
you switched to “Never”, there’s a much more likely case where security
updates might be known without automatic checks: if you did a manual
check but then didn’t install them.
So, I guess the menu should instead contain options for when to remind
you about known security updates that aren’t installed yet, no matter
how that happened. Anyone who’s seen a billboard or digital sign defaced
by a giant Windows update prompt might think “Never” should be one of
the options, but I’ll defer to Steve that it shouldn’t be. (I guess we’d
say that kind of thing should use Ubuntu Core instead.)
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
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