Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread ian douglas
Ron K. Jeffries wrote: As an Ubuntu *user* every now and then I get an alert that upgrades are available. Likewise with other major distros like Fedora -- you get an alert that upgrades are available when you login, or come back from an idle state overnight (nightly cron job I imagine). In

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread George Brooke
On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:58:40 -0700 ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the case of the Freerunner though, if updates are available, we should give the user the option of upgrading everything automagically, without ever prompting them, or letting them manually update. We should disable

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 May 2008, at 19:37, Ron K. Jeffries wrote: ... As an Ubuntu *user* every now and then I get an alert that upgrades are available. If I say yes it automagically fires up a package manager. I enter the my root password, and a few minutes later it's a done deal. Smooth, easy... for a major

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread David Samblas Martinez
Seems that there is already a Moko-Manager project http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/openmokomanager/ I was unable to run it yet but it got screen shoots ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Ron K. Jeffries wrote: As an Ubuntu *user* every now and then I get an alert that upgrades

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread Mo Abrahams
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 23:48 +0100, George Brooke wrote: Also maybe doing major updates while on battery should be disabled (certainly while battery is low) just to avoid any problems (bricked phone) How about it downloads the updates whenever wifi is available (battery or not), and then (if

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread ian douglas
Mo Abrahams wrote: How about it downloads the updates whenever wifi is available (battery or not), and then (if set to update automatically) updates once plugged in to charge, and if set to manual requires battery power to be above a certain percentage. I'd say that if GSM downloads are going

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread Bastian Muck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think the user should decide, wheter the update should be done at once or later. Of cource an advise of batterystate should be done. Greetings Bastian ian douglas schrieb: | Mo Abrahams wrote: | How about it downloads the updates whenever wifi

Re: clarification re easy OpenMoko updating for average consumer

2008-05-15 Thread Kosa
That's something I thought some time ago, but it was not possible 'couse there are too many possible hardware combinations. But we don't have that on the Freerunner. It would be nice to add to the description of every package, app or update the time it take to install it. I mean, we can