Hi all, just budding in to add my vote...
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:37:21PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Olivier Blin wrote: > > > > A tray applet that notifies update would be a good feature, and not > > very hard to do. This applet just have to change its color if a media > > has been updated, and perhaps have a dropdown list to see which medias > > have been updated. A click on the media name could download do a > > urpmi.update and then ask the user if he wants to upgrade his > > packages. > > All that it needs to do is run MandrakeUpdate, or if the user just wants > to see what has happened, diff the current descriptions file (or some > other convenient file maintained by urpmi) against the one on the > server, and show what has been added. Why not create a tray icon for MandrakeUpdate, so it's even easier to start it up. Then add a feature to M.U. to, with the click of a button/menu add the various update-checks to whoever <the one who just started M.U. (who is also root!)> assigns as receivers of the news that there are updates available. This doesn't sound too hard to do, it's not more intrusive than M.U. should be and it _will_ be configured by the one who is root on that machine. (Perhaps even let daring users do the updates automatically as well) As for who is running the checks, for security reasons it might be a good idea to have a non-priviledged (non-human) user in charge of the checking/download process anyway. AFAIC only the actual installation of packages should be done by root. Just my 2 cents Simon
