Maybe it's time to revisit Check for Updates, making it more immediate, actionable, and helpful.
Currently, when you Check for Updates, or if an update is "available" (you see the message in the web interface), the links take you to an info page, and then offer to take you to an a page with even more info. But you can't do anything from there. From a user's perspective when you Check for Updates, nothing happens, and it's unclear what should happen, or what is happening in the background. It's a tease. If I recall correctly, LMS will download the software eventually, and offer to install. The problem is, that might be tomorrow, or the next day, when yet another update is available, and the non-deterministic waiting repeats. Maybe this very lazy download made sense 10 years ago. But today, the 40-50Mb is trivial, and there should be an Update Now button that starts the process for users. I'm using LMS 8.2 nightly, and so go manually download the update anyway. I have no idea if LMS had already downloaded it, often it has, and so the downloads are doubled, and sometimes the installation requires two runs. Any possibility that entire procedure can be advanced to modern practices? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114515 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
