[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8661: Give themes update checker a bubble in the menu for update count

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#8661: Give themes update checker a bubble in the menu for update count
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 Reporter:  DD32         |        Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.8
Component:  UI           |      Version:  2.7
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:     
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion  |  
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Comment (by johnbillion):

 Not too sure about the effectiveness of this. Users often have a big pile
 of themes sitting in their themes folder and it might be a bit too much
 being reminded about updates to all these themes as well as their plugins
 and may put people off doing any updates at all (ie. once they get "snowed
 under" with pending updates they might just not bother at all).

 The problem is that themes can of course have the same functionality as
 plugins, and therefore there is a risk that an outdated theme can have a
 security vulnerability even though it is not active, but I would expect
 that the likelyhood of this is much lower in general than for plugins.

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