Two things here: 1. This applet would be squarely aimed at the client side desktop user. Admins are more proactive and selective about what gets installed. 2. This is functionality that is already enabled in competing products. SuSE's is cumbersome and I don't like RH's attitude of having to register and only getting the ability to only update 1 machine. However, I do like RH implementation and I would like to see it in MDK if possible.
Cory > -----Original Message----- > From: Olivier Blin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] For 9.2 - automatic update notification > > > > That most definitely isn't a cron job running with it's output > > disappearing into a mail queue the user does not even know about ... > > it's a tray applet that works in GNOME and KDE, and changes > colour based > > on whether there are updates or not (IIRC, it's been a while since I > > last installed RH to see what they have been up to). > > 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. > > But how could this applet know if the user has access to Internet ? > Should it care about that ? > > -- > Olivier Blin >
