On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:09:24 +0200 Alex Launi <alex.la...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:06 PM, tacone <tac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Good intent, bad idea. > > > > I disagree, let's imagine this scenario, together... > <blur and wiggle dream sequence style scene change> > > It's Tuesday morning, you get up and turn on your computer. Whilst > you were fast asleep dreaming of sugar plums and sexy librarians > Ubuntu packagers were hard at work packaging updates for your > favourite operating system. Now that it's morning, these updates are > available, for you! You boot up and arrive at the slick new GDM. But > what's this message? > > "New updates available! Click here to install" > > Some days you're very busy, and need your computer right away so you > chose to ignore them and log right in. That's ok, they'll be > available when you're ready. Update Manager shouldn't go away, you > should be able to launch it yourself manually if you want to update > once you've logged in and found out that DST was this weekend and > you've got some extra time. > > But today you decide to click. The interface changes nicely into a > screen displaying what updates are available, and asking for your > username and password to authorize install / log in. If you're not an > administrator we will politely tell you that you can't perform an > upgrade, and that you should let your administrator know that your > system needs some updates. At this point we just finish the login, > since you just gave us your info. Awesome. > > Now let's say you are an admin, this update requires no reboot so we > log you right in, and when the desktop is loaded there is already a > dialog waiting giving you the progress of your update. You may > continue working, you weren't cost much time, and your system is > fully secure because you're up to date. > > But next time there might be a kernel upgrade, which will require a > restart. In this case we should ask the user what they'd like to do. > In some cases the estimated time to finish (which we will show) may > only be 2 minutes, and we can afford that so we just halt the login > and modally install the upgrades, or we allow them to say "ok i > recognize that this update will need a restart to apply, but I need > my computer- so lets continue like there are no updates that require > a reboot, and I will reboot when I'm ready. > > <blur and wiggle dream sequence end style change> > > Awesome, right? > What about those who use an autologin? They will never see those gdm screens. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp