Updater icon

[epp]

I decided to give Ubuntu another try after all this time and it works on my laptop. :)

Is there any type of updater icon that is displayed when updates are available and what it looks like? Since installing Ubuntu last night, I have yet to see one and I'm sure that updates have been available since 9.04 was released last month.

Thanks (and it's good to be back!)

[drs305]

The way ubuntu notifies you of changes has ... changed. Here is the exerpt from the release notes:


Change in notifications of available updates

Ubuntu 9.04 introduces a change to the handling of package updates, launching update-manager directly instead of displaying a notification icon in the GNOME panel. Users will still be notified of security updates on a daily basis, but for updates that are not security-related, users will only be prompted once a week.

Users who wish to continue receiving update notifications in the previous manner can restore the earlier behavior using the following command:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false


Here are the release notes:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904

[epp]

I see. And thanks for the Release Notes link.

[cybergalvez]

The way ubuntu notifies you of changes has ... changed. Here is the exerpt from the release notes:


Here are the release notes:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904

interesting, sounds very windowsish. I actually liked the unobtrusiveness of the update icon. We'll have to see how this goes, if its annoying it's going to get turned off, but I'll wait and see