You can always read about the latest changes and updates to apps on
their respective App Central pages. The GW Toolkit app, which ships with
Window-Eyes, provides an App update mechanism that app developers can
use to push new release notifications to the end user, without requiring
the user to manually check for updated versions. Update notifications,
despite their inherent benevolence, have become an annoyance to some.
The toolkit's update feature was modified to give more control over
update announcements, even disabling them all together (even at the risk
of running potentially problematic apps). The toolkit, located at
www.gwmicro.com/apps/gw_toolkit, states (among other things) the following:
"This version provides the ability to disable future app updates, or be
notified at a later time. You can control the settings using the update
notification dialog, or using the GW Toolkit App Updates menu in the
Window-Eyes Apps menu. This setting controls the global update
notification. If you set it to never, and then go into an individual
app's standard help dialog, there will be only one update radio button
available (because what's the point of setting it to always check when
you've set it to never check globally). In addition to this
modification, the custom update option has been removed from the
standard help dialog. Also, if the global update queue contains at least
one item, the rest of the apps won't bother doing an update check
(because if there's at least one, you'll get the update notification
dialog, which will launch the Window-Eyes app update dialog which will
check for all available app updates). That means, if you have 20 apps
set to check for updates on launch, and the first one has an update
available, you (and we) will save on 19 additional hits to our server,
which means (potentially) faster launch time."
Aaron
On 9/26/2011 4:11 PM, Chris Skarstad wrote:
Hi. I haven't noticed anything different about the app update
process? Care to explain what you guys mean, maybe i'm not doing
something rigt? I used Apppget, installed the notepad app, and was
met with the usual files in package dialogue, with the install button,
followed by the license agreement, which i agreed to and the app
installed successfully. this is exactly the same as it was before.
On 9/26/2011 3:23 PM, David wrote:
Yeh, great. Now everyone's need should be covered pretty well.
----- Original Message -----
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To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:18 PM
Subject: I Like the New App Update
Hey who ever made the changes to the app update process great job.
I like the options in the combo box that came up at the beginning.
Excellent and timely response to the app update discussion that
took place a couple of weeks back.
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