GNOME Updater Applet/Update Process on the Desktop/When to Notify

From openSUSE

If we happen to have very frequent updates available (which is often raised complaint about Linux distributions) an ever appearing dialog might anger the user (as do web popups) even if this dialog appears only once a day. We can address this problem the following way:

• Show the dialog/notification only immediately if security updates are available.
• If only recommended updates are available show it once a week (time can be set by user -- I recommend a maximum setting being once a month or turning off recommended updates completely, which would also trigger a warning if package updates are available).