On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought about that as well, but it might be problematic with Ubuntu: the > reason why ubuntu-tweak was not included in the ubuntu cd, was that it > contained mechanisms to add ppas to the system - it seems that ubuntu does > not like it if it is to easy to add external sources. But it might work if > it just downloads the deb and installs it. This would effectively be an > "update check" - in my opinion, this would be really cool: > Check every week for updates and if there is a newer version, if there is > one, offer to download it and install it. > A 'Check for Updates' in Help menu would be handy, indeed. As Pavel said, it's not really our business to provide automatic updates to LyX (across platforms, mind we), but one thing we can do is point the user to the right website for her distribution: the Win and Mac download pages for Win and Mac users, respectively, and the Linux explanation page on supported distros (PPA, openSuse, etc.).
A similar message could be used for crashes: if it crashed and an old/unstable version was in use, inform user to first update her LyX version. (We should keep in mind that R provides support only for the latest stable version, while MPlayer goes as far as supporting only latest SVN.) This should work just nicely and users would at least get a first pointer in the right direction. Liviu > Problem might be: different distros and different mechanisms, but one could > start with one repo and add them on the go. > But I would think, it is not to difficult to do? > Rainer > >> >> -- >> John C. McCabe-Dansted > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: rai...@krugs.de > > Skype: RMkrug > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
