Less intrusive automatic update notifications

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Reported by elliott94 on 2012-04-20 18:00 Ok, so I've just had my first experience of automatic updates, and have some suggestions.

I was typing, and the dialog literally popped up on my screen, and automatically took focus. Before I knew what was going on, I had hit space, and the donate dialog had appeared. I hit the Not Now button, which started the download of the update. Figuring that I would update later, I hit the Cancel button which disappeared, but the download continued.

So, here are some suggestions:

• Create some kind of audible notification to alert the user to a new update (this could maybe appear in the notification area). In my opinion, this would not only be a nicer way than a dialog that automatically takes focus, but the user could choose when they wanted to actually update.
• Make the Cancel button of the download process functional, which would close the download and remove the temperary launcher from the temp directory.
• Alert the user as to when the update had been installed, as aposed to closing the installer and relaunching the new copy of NVDA. Blocking #5197