On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:43:02PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 19.09.2011 12:31, schrieb Michael Biebl: > >> nm-applet worked perfectly, without requiring a reboot. > >> > >> Please consider adding a mechanism to support rebootless upgrades. > > > > This is the best that can be done imho. > > Let me rephrase that: It's better then doing nothing and expecting the average > user to read the changelog and understand why nm-applet stopped working, and > to > kill and restart nm-applet themselves. For plasma-widget-networkmanagement > (the > KDE frontend) it is even more complicated and what triggered the addition of > this notification [1].
I certainly agree that this seems better than doing nothing. :) > So, I'm willing to review patches which implement the automatic reloading for > both nm-applet and pnm in a clean way but I won't work on that myself. Fair enough. > The alternative would be, as said, if update-notifier supported a > restart-your-session notification, which could be more generally useful. > An effort would probably be better spent there. For me, "restart your session" and "restart your system" seem equally painful; either way I lose my state. I'd love to see as many programs as possible supporting self-restart, the way Firefox does (restart on upgrade, preserve your session); that seems even easier for programs which have no state, like nm-applet. I'll look into what it would take to produce a sensible patch. - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
