Is there a benefit to show the updater icon if there are no updates whatsoever? The user wants to know whether the updater applet runs and have an icon to click when he wants to configure the applet. I guess some gnome applets hide the tray icon when there is nothing to do for
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442504
User tgoettlicher@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442504#c3
--- Comment #3 from Thomas Göttlicher