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Description of problem: The system update notification as given to the gnome-shell seems to be marked as urgent. Urgent notifications in Gnome 3.2 auto-expand (large), cover up significant screen space and get a lot of attention (vs normal notifications that are usually used for things like new messages in a chat program or stuff like that which are little and go away soon). While mount notification/helpers when plugging in an usb stick are useful for popping up as a large auto-expand urgent notification, a simple "update available" info should be less obtrusive and eye catching especially since the user might be busy with other things and didn't explicitly do something to prompt this in the first place. On a side note, the urgent system update notification becomes also even more interrupting and annoying due to upstream issue https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660609 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit: 0.6.19-2.fc16 gnome-packagekit: 3.2.1-1.fc16 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait for new system updates and a notification for them Actual results: System update notification is just small and unobtrusive and only expands when I move the mouse there, offering me an update button (not urgent/not auto-expand notification). Expected results: Notification auto-expands, getting into the way of my current work without asking and prompted without initial actions done by myself (unlike e.g. mount helper notifications that are a result of me plugging an usb stick in and therefore not unexpectedly interrupting me). Additional info:
Is this still a problem with Fedora 18? If so, please file a bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org under the component gnome-packagekit -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
This is still a problem with Fedora 18, just had such a notification happen 5 minutes ago. I filed an upstream bug here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685153
The notification is NOTIFY_URGENCY_NORMAL. We only use NOTIFY_URGENCY_CRITICAL when there is a critical security update that needs to be applied.
Reopening, see upstream remarks: critical security updates don't appear to be that rare (I recall getting them often enough so I find this slightly annoying, I haven't counted the occasions though), and when I'm watching a movie or just writing an e-mail, I probably do NOT want to do the updates right now. Maybe that's bad behaviour or something, but since I'm not running a nuclear plant, there are simply times where I don't want to update immediately. And in such cases, the update notification staying on screen forever until I click on it so it finally goes away is annoying to me. If I'm the only one with that opinion, feel free to close again - but I just wanted to bring this up for further consideration. I don't think any update notification should stay on screen forever, since the computer won't explode or whatever if the user doesn't instantly apply the update. I understand a security update should be applied rather soon - but an hour later won't cause the computer to explode.
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