On 04/25/2010 04:04 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 19:28 -0300, Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: >> I do believe that the best balance would be to prompt the user in >> specific moments (log-out, before suspend/lock) with a dialog that has >> as default option to apply the updates. The tricky part here is that >> many people are just leaving their computer on all the time and they >> are not there when the computer sleeps or lock screen to confirm the >> update. >> >> Actually I got a proposal: present the update dialog at >> log-out/automatic suspend/lock-screen. The user can ignore (for >> example if he/she is not there). If the user ignores it for more than >> a certain amount of time (for example a week) present a notification >> at login/awake/unlock that the system will apply the security update >> at next log-out/etc (or that the user can apply it right away if >> he/she wants). >> > > I think this is sure-fire way to make sure the updates _never_ get > installed. On laptops, when people want to turn off or suspend, they > want it to do so immediately, not after 10 minutes of security updates. > I'm pretty sure the success rate of this type of prompt would be even > lower than the blinking notification area. >
Yet other operating systems have found it useful to have a "shutdown after updates install" feature, which is functionally the same. Perhaps there is some merit in simply doing both - pop under update manager, and prompt them again when they shut down if they closed update manager. Thanks, Scott Ritchie _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
