update-notifier and 7.10
R Kimber
rkimber at ntlworld.com
Sat Oct 20 18:00:58 UTC 2007
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:04:54 +0200
Mario Vukelic wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:28 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> > It seems odd that there is no automatic notification of an upgrade.
> > Adding this would seem to be a worthwhile feature, and not
> > complicated to implement.
>
> There _is an automatic notification, when you have Feisty installed
> and start update-manager. You will see a button "Upgrade to new
> release" or some such. IMHO, not showing an icon in the notification
> areas makes sense, there is no need to pressure people into an
> upgrade who have no interest. IMHO it should just show an icon when
> the security update support of the currently installed release is
> about to end (but I don't know if it does this)
IMHO having to start update-manager doesn't amount to automatic
notification, and IMHO an informational icon doesn't amount to pressure.
It just seems neater to me that an icon should appear which in effect
says "There's a new release if you want it"
- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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