Le lun 15/03/2004 � 16:53, Jerry Haltom a �crit : > I'm wondering if this could be better implemented not as a panel applet. > > I envision: > > apt-get update being run in the background by root, perhaps as a cron > job. Package "cron-apt" already does that.
> A Gnome capplet or confiugration dialog that would allow you to change > the same settings the update applet currently allows you to set, > protected by gksu. > > A per user daemon that simply checks weither or not there are pending > upgrades, and displays an icon in the notification tray. A right click > contextual menu on this icon would allow you to enter the previously > mentioned configuration screen (after prompting for root password > (gksu)), as well as launch synaptic or your other prefered apt-getter. > > > Yes I realize this is way different from how the applet is done now. > > I'm curious though, HOW is the applet done now? It's never once asked me > for a password! Does it do the entire process as non-root without > actually touching the real apt-repository??? Isn't that a whole lot of > work? > > > On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 19:26, Miles Bader wrote: > > Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway to make it SMALLER? It's a massive applet. > > > > > > I just want a single icon. > > > > Yeah, me too -- with the existing `nothing to upgrade' text it takes up > > about 1/4 of my panel! > > > > Ideally the general appearance should be small and almost unnoticeable > > when there's nothing to upgrade, and become more noticeable when there > > is something to upgrade... > > > > -Miles > > -- > > `Life is a boundless sea of bitterness' > > -- J�r�me Warnier Consultant BeezNest http://beeznest.net
