You might want to read this
http://lifehacker.com/5295449/disable-ubuntus-annoying-update-manager-popup
Alex Launi wrote:
I figured I should start a new thread for this, so that you can all
continue your icon vs. pop-under debate, which is still relevant for
the auto-login case, although it b
>> If you feel this
>> is important, consider proposing a more prominent place to let users
>> opt-in automated upgrades. (like, say, Ubiquity. We may place a
>> "Perform the upgrades for me" checkbox just under the 'autologin'
>> checkbox)
>>
>
> That would be nice, and have it checked by default.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:22 AM, tacone wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:02 AM, David
> Siegel wrote:
>> I think this is the ideal, but every time I start to bring up implicit
>> updates, I get smacked :)
>
Had the same experience :-)
> Understandable.
> I should also say that browser upgrade
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:02 AM, David
Siegel wrote:
> I think this is the ideal, but every time I start to bring up implicit
> updates, I get smacked :)
Understandable.
I should also say that browser upgrades are different from whole OS
upgrade (not to mention we have PPA's and similar stuff).
I think this is the ideal, but every time I start to bring up implicit updates,
I get smacked :)
David
Wouter Stomp wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Siegel wrote:
Most of us would be perfectly comfortable initiating an update on shutdown,
and walking away from our machine, but I'
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Siegel wrote:
> Most of us would be perfectly comfortable initiating an update on shutdown,
> and walking away from our machine, but I'm not sure if less sophisticated
> users are similarly comfortable behaving this way.
>
Most users don't care about updates
> My roll on the Canonical Design and User Experience team is to make Ubuntu
> the most enjoyable to use operating system in the world, so I hope you can
> forgive me for making "[it offers a] more pleasant experience" the main
> thrust of my argument.
David, as I told before, there's no intent of
My role! :)
David
David Siegel wrote:
My roll on the Canonical Design and User Experience team is to make
Ubuntu the most enjoyable to use operating system in the world, so I
hope you can forgive me for making "[it offers a] more pleasant
experience" the main thrust of my argument.
I am not
My roll on the Canonical Design and User Experience team is to make Ubuntu the
most enjoyable to use operating system in the world, so I hope you can forgive
me for making "[it offers a] more pleasant experience" the main thrust of my
argument.
I am not decidedly in favor of updates at GDM ove
> People who auto-login or never restart can be handled differently.
> Personally, I auto-login, so I would not use this feature, but let's not
> think of gurus like us, who participate on Linux mailing lists, and let's
> think instead about the average user, who might be made uncomfortable by
> co
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:01 PM, David Siegel
wrote:
> I am glad this is being explored. I originally suggested we consider
> updates at GDM (1) to challenge our thinking about this problem through
> inversion, and (2) to rebrand updates as something fun and exciting to
> receive, not a system ma
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
Il giorno mer, 17/06/2009 alle 09.26 -0500, David Siegel ha scritto:
I auto-login, so I would not use this feature, but let's not think of
gurus like us
The argument "that's for gurus" or "power users" keeps popping up :)
This can not be applied here: auto-login
Il giorno mer, 17/06/2009 alle 09.26 -0500, David Siegel ha scritto:
> I auto-login, so I would not use this feature, but let's not
> think of gurus like us
The argument "that's for gurus" or "power users" keeps popping up :)
This can not be applied here: auto-login is enabled by checking an
inno
tacone wrote:
We should definitely consider as many update scenarios as possible in order
to find the one that users will prefer. We are very quick to start
implementing updates and shut down without considering something radically
different because many of us have experiences updates at shutdown
> We should definitely consider as many update scenarios as possible in order
> to find the one that users will prefer. We are very quick to start
> implementing updates and shut down without considering something radically
> different because many of us have experiences updates at shutdown when us
Alex Launi wrote:
I figured I should start a new thread for this, so that you can all
continue your icon vs. pop-under debate, which is still relevant for
the auto-login case, although it becomes much less important. I've
copied and pasted the relevant posts from the previous thread into
this
Ok, based on these questions I'm not convinced you carefully read my entire
post. I addressed these in my story, but I'm happy to do so a second time.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM, mac_v wrote:
> The whole "dream" assumes that the downloads are already
> downloaded/quickly downloaded...
>
Wh
Alex Launi wrote:
>> I disagree, let's imagine this scenario, together...
> >
The whole "dream" assumes that the downloads are already
downloaded/quickly downloaded...
Consider users with slow connections, so the downloads take time to be
initially downloaded download is larger the longer the w
I figured I should start a new thread for this, so that you can all continue
your icon vs. pop-under debate, which is still relevant for the auto-login
case, although it becomes much less important. I've copied and pasted the
relevant posts from the previous thread into this one. Have at it.
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