With all due respect, I think that it is possible that we might be
talking at cross-purposes
OK, I get that some users are non-technical.
My wife sounds much like yours in that regard, and looks to either
myself or my son when it comes to this sort of thing, and fair enough.
It is therefore down to the likes of you and me to take on the task of
administrator and to make the life of the everyday users easier, and
easier for those who are not technical and probably don't wish to get
involved in technical aspects of things.
I therefore offered you a possible action to consider - ie _you_ set the
thing to run automatically on startup for her, and hand the machine back
to her.
Meanwhile, it does sound as if something has indeed got lost in the
telling somewhere as far as the updating of that particular snap is
concerned, and that hopefully raising the issue on launchpad will bring
things to the fore for yourself, your wife and everyone. I suspect that
the likely problem will be actually less to do with snapcraft and more
to do with the developer and the channel used, but that of course
remains to be seen.
On 26/04/2020 15:13, Terry Coles wrote:
On Sunday, 26 April 2020 15:01:39 BST aidangcole--- via dorset wrote:
If that were me, and I was that troubled by it, then I'd set a snap
refresh to run on startup or delayed startup, and then hand the machine
back to the user and forget about it
Sorry to keep harping on about this, but the average non-technical user
wouldn't have a clue how to do that.
This isn't about me, it's about people like my wife, who prefer to run Linux
because it is more secure than Windows, but don't know one end of a bash shell
from the other, let alone a cron job.
Anyway. Since I last posted, I've established that the version of Chromium
that was on the laptop was released in early December, so even though (until
recently) I was often using it for several hours at a time (such as at a LUG
Meeting (when we still had them) it never caught a refresh.
I really think that the snap developers haven't thought of this so unless
someone can come up with a logical explanation why *my* particular laptop
isn't updating, other than what I've suggested, I'll probably raise a bug
report on Launchpad.
(I did do a search but couldn't find a bug that resembled this.)
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