GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 685153
Gnome system update notification shouldn't be marked as urgent
Last modified: 2014-08-06 15:05:46 UTC
I hope this is the right component and place, I was intructed on the redhat bugtracker to file this issue here: The system update notification as given to the gnome-shell seems to be marked as urgent. Urgent notifications in Gnome 3.2-3.4 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. Please note this is made worse by #660609 / #657923 in addition.
The notification is NOTIFY_URGENCY_NORMAL. We only use NOTIFY_URGENCY_CRITICAL when there is a critical security update that needs to be applied.
I will reopen because I get critical security update notifications quite often, and I still don't think they should stay on screen forever. I don't know if I'm the only one thinking this, but when I'm watching a movie or doing some other work I will probably NOT want to apply the critical security update RIGHT NOW. And if I'm not moving the mouse down there at all and continuing other work which I want to do first before administering the updates, I don't think it's of any use when that notification window stays visible all the time, forcing me to click onto it just so it goes away and I can deal with it later when I want to. -- Feel free to close again if you still don't think that's a valid reason, but IMHO this still needs some debate.
I'm not spending much more developer time on gnome-packagekit, see gnome-software instead. Sorry.