I think it would really help users (especially those who are using Manjaro like me, for office job) to have yellow, orange and red colors to help to decide if it’s urgent or not.
Something based on kernel or core component update (red), software like LibreOffice in orange et other in a yellow color.
It doesn’t mean users have to delay an important update, but help them to know when it’s important to do it.
You can also adjust the interval in which the checks for new updates are done.
Weekly, for instance.
Then you’d only be bothered every week and can ignore it to be bothered again the next week
If flatpak is something you use: just update and be done with it.
Or disable the plugin
and/or remove the whole thing altogether?
And: it is the pamac GUI you are talking about, not pacman.
I’ve tried few months ago but can’t memorize it because pacman, pamca pamac, paamc pacamn are too similar (it could be like a joke, but it’s really not).
But i know one is able to manage aur and other repository (flatpak);
Oh, maybe, one is a packet manager, one is a yellow circle eating ghosts (here is the joke , please take it with no offense)
Whoever came up with the name “pamac” for the Manjaro specific package manager -
it is the name of the thing and we are stuck with it.
The icon in the tray is the update notifier.
It’s start can be disabled entirely.
That is what I do.
… somewhere in “Startup Applications”
but then you’d have to check for updates yourself
another way to look at it is:
you can then decide yourself at which time you want to look and check for updates, instead of being reminded through the icon …
As you discovered yourself, the colors are theme-dependent. For example Papirus-Dark-Maia is black and white only.
The suggestion to have more than 2 icon states is not doable, because it is kind of against the whole arch/manjaro philosophy. It is a hands-on distro and YOU decide what is important and what not. It is not windows which decides for you and gives you no choice.
