[packagekit] Should we add a configuration to make the icon never appear?

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:49 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441127
> 
> Appears to be asking that we provide an option in the update
> preferences to never have the update icon appear.  However, I'm not
> sure if users would want:
> 
> o Never show the icon, never update the system unless the user runs
> the updater from the menus.
> 
> o No icon, no notification, but still do updates.
> 
> I'm not sure what the best way to address this is, but we may need
> different logic to make some users happy.

I think there are three "ignore" use cases:

1) Show me that there are updates, but don't do them
2) Don't show me updates or do them, but show me status when I do them
manually
3) Don't show or do anything; I hate packagekit

For 1, we have the "automatically install" box set to none.
For 2, we have the "check for updates" box set to never.
For 3, we tell the user to uninstall PackageKit or disable
gpk-update-icon.desktop

I'm not sure if 3 is a bit drastic, but this seems like the best way to
do this -- there's no point taking up memory if we going to do
_nothing_...

Richard.