On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 10:58, Anil Sahoo <anil.sa...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave, > > As discussed I moved with auto-update of pgAdmin 4 application in macOs > system locally. It is successful. > So now I have to do some additional user experience improvements. > > Listing down some ways we can show the user that a new version is > available and he can download and install it. > > *Option 1:* > > Show a dialog with the released features and fixes(mentioned in the > release note) with *"Download & Restart"* and *"Cancel"* buttons. This > dialog will be shown only when the application starts for the first time of > the day. > > Benefits of showing this dialog will help users to know about the new > features and bugs fixed available in the latest version. > > "Download & Restart" button will download the latest version and quit the > app and install and open the latest app. "Cancel" will cancel the > notification. > > *Option 2:* > > We are currently showing a warning notification of the latest version > available, if the older version is being used by the user, we can add > *"Download > & Restart"* and *"Cancel" * buttons. And those buttons will work the way > they are working in Option 1. > > Additionally we will add *"Check for updates"* option in pgAdmin 4 native > menu, if any time a user wants to check for updates manually then can > prefer this and if update is available then the *"Restart to update"* > option will show and if clicked will quit the app and install the latest > version. > > Let me know in which way we can proceed. > Option 1 seems good to me; though the current notifier should continue to work as it does now if a particular distribution channel doesn't support auto-updates (for example, the EDB PostgreSQL Installer). -- Dave Page pgAdmin: https://www.pgadmin.org PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org pgEdge: https://www.pgedge.com
