On 1/1/07, t u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, I booted to Windows after 4-5 months. Because of my switch to > Linux, I have been behaving like an average Windows user, not going out > of my way to protect the OS. > > A pop up appeared and told me that my AVG free anti-virus 7.1 will not > be updated ever again after Jan 15th, and that I should update to 7.5. > Without this pop up, however annoying, I would not have known that I > will not be getting any security updates. That would leave me vulnerable > to everything out there... > > I think our end-users who do not like to go out of their way to learn > about what's going on in the community could really use such a feature. > > This idea was discussed before, but nothing happened. So I wanted to > attract your attention to this issue again. > > At the least, if it is do-able, for desktop users, you could change the > background picture to something that says "upgrade because your current > version will not get security updates within 1 month."... or maybe a pop > up by update-manager? I suspect that server users are more > security-savvy and don't need such intervention.
I don't think that a large-window pop-up or changing the background image is the way to go though; why not just a notification area icon like when it informs us that updates are available, with a balloon similar to how it informs us that a restart is required? CK -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
