Points taken. I reopened the bug and will remove that warning. However, since Debian is currently frozen, I won't be able to upload a new package just yet, I think.
2017-02-21 20:32 GMT+00:00 Mantas Baltix <[email protected]>: > Please don't close this bugreport - current implementation is really bad way > on multi-user systems and no other nautilus extensions (except dead 6-years > old nautilus-compare) uses this approach. > When I install nautilus-admin package on multi-user system (where reboots > are very rare), then *all users* gets this misleading warning *at first > login* after installation: > "The file manager must be restarted in order to start the Nautilus Admin > extension." > Users shouldn't see such dialog at login, because nautilus-admin extension > works fine right after login (there was no nautilus process for that user at > installation time), so, no need to restart nautilus! > > Bruno Nova <[email protected]> wrote: >> dialog asking to restart the file manager is there to do that, so >> that average users are not confused when the extension doesn't >> work after being installed. > > Average users doesn't have administration rights and doesn't have ability to > install deb packages :) > This dialog should be displayed *only for user, who install this package*, > not for every user in operating system. > > User's should not be disturbed about installed nautilus extensions, > *this info is useful only for system administrator* - only for 1 user, who > installs this package, so, please use debconf in debian/postinst or put this > info in package's description or /usr/share/doc/nautilus-admin/README.Debian > > Prompting "every" user instead of system administrator violates Debian > policy, see > www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscriptprompt > > Prompting must be done by *communicating through a program, such as > *debconf*, which conforms to the Debian Configuration Management > Specification, version 2 or higher. > > Thanks for maintaining such useful extension, > Mantas, > Prekyba kompiuteriais su Linux OS - http://tinklas.eu/prekyba > Naudokite laisvą Linux operacinę sistemą savo kompiuteryje - > http://baltix.akl.lt
