Comment 26 for bug 1246364

This really needs to be fixed. I'm actually a Unity user myself, but I certainly do not want update-manager to run automatically whenever there are updates, uselessly consuming resources until I manually close it. I want to be *notified* that there are updates, and then choose whether I want to run update-manager to install them, or (much more likely) install them with aptitude from the terminal. I really don't give a damn about your "usability studies." So they didn't notice the indicator icon? Well I never notice it in Unity, which I have set to auto-hide and rarely actually look at. People are *different* and come from different backgrounds.

This one-size-fits-all bullshit really needs to stop—that's what made Windows so awful. There are many different categories of users and they all have different needs. You want to make this awful behaviour the default? Fine. But removing the option entirely is just spitting in the face of your users and driving them to other distributions.