On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:21:51 pm Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 21:25, Matt Wheeler <m...@funkyhat.org> wrote: > > On 2 August 2010 20:35, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > When clicking "Install Updates" in update-manager, USER should be > > > warned explicitly that doing so will require a restart. USER should > > > know this > > > > well, > > > > > before updating. > > > > > > *Does* Ubuntu warn the user beforehand that the updates about to be > > > made will eventually require a restart? I can't recall.. > > > > A potential problem with the wording you've used is that users may be > > put off actually doing the updates. > > Today, i did my habitual sudo apt-get update, followed by my favourite sudo > apt-get upgrade. > gnome-terminal showed me this: > > **u...@machine:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common libwww-perl > linux-headers-2.6.32-24 linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic > linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic linux-libc-dev > 8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 43.7MB of archives. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y** > > As we all see, there is no notice about how installing a new linux kernel > will require restarting the system to complete successfully.. > > Do we want to make updates so silent, that we don't notice them happening? > Perhaps in that case it would make sense to leave the power icon on the top > right corner of screen in its usual state, instead of coloring it in > red-alert fashion.. !?
If you're using apt-get, then you aren't in the target audience Ayatana is designing for. Scott K _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
