В Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:12:19 +0100
"Carlos E. R."
I have never activated anything myself and always had automatic update check and notifications in GNOME ... until recently. So I actually have opposite question - how do I get it back again? :) I could not find out where thus automatic check was done.
It is 13.2 now and I am not sure if it worked here at all.
In this other thread:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/496500-How-do-I-disable-automatic...
they talk about gnome, in 13.1.
Yes, Of course nothing applies any more to 13.2 with different GNOME version. So in 13.1 update check was performed by plugin to gnome-settings-daemon. This plugin was configured by gpk-prefs. And it was how I received update noticifcations. In 13.2 gnome-settings-daemon plugin does not exist anymore. Instead we get shiny new gnome-software. The *ONLY* configurable parameter is "Whether to automatically download updates". There is *NO* way to separately configure checking for updates and whether to download them. There is *NO* way to fine tune when or how frequently you want to check for updates. But the most idiotic thing is, once updates are downloaded, nothing happens at all, not even notification to the user. So instead of update notifications that actually worked we got black box that wastes your bandwidth without you being even aware of it. Well done.