Am 10.11.2016 um 00:24 schrieb Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:37:02PM +0100, Achim Patzner wrote: > > Maybe I should have added the (obviously in my eyes obvious) argument: > > The current update-procedures are launched by a GUI-application and then > > open a window that is asking questions which need keyboard interaction. > > And in some cases the default answer (at least in Fedora) (which is > > making things worse – at least the default Xterm is looking different > > for Fedora and Debian) is not what you want. Or at least not what I want > > (aborting the update). Now someone wants to add another bloody > > interactive option that will require at least me to select the > > non-default option. > > I'd like to change this default - indeed it is very confusing, but I > don't know how.
Only be recompiling it. This is hardcoded. I remember a "Linux-Stammtisch" in the area where the discussion over this topic nearly led to bloodshed so please avoid supplying patches unless you've got a black belt in something. > The only related option is to accept automatically. > Maybe this is the way to go? I'm currently living with about 10 Fedora-based templates. I'm usually updating the fattest, reviewing the list carefully and then go on with the update. The others are just getting a treatment using qvm-run (because I am annoyed by all those questions using the Manager). So using "-y" on the command line would not be exactly what I consider safe nor secure. > Personally I like to review list of packages to be updated, but I guess > most users don't do that. … until they have been burnt. I just spent hours finding out how I destroyed my native Arch system until I remembered that I'm EFI booting without grub and forgot copying the new kernel (which I didn't notice being installed because I didn't check the f* list) to /boot/efi/EFI/arch. > I think it's important to give the user some feedback. Fully automated > updates are somehow broken in most tools[1] - this is why we have this > terminal window, I guess I mentioned already that I'm mildly hating someone for using an xterm in default settings 8-). Although it is looking coool when you're updating 20 machines at the same time and showing your stamp collection to someone I've yet to figure out how to use a different font size for it. > instead of just some progress bar or something even less intrusive. Sometimes I like the way Ubuntu and the likes are handling things – until they break something. 8-) > But automatically shutting down the template (after user have a chance > to see update feedback) is a good idea. Something like "Press enter to > shutdown template, or Ctrl-C to just close this window". I once got into a serious discussion with Jordan Hubbard about the fact that I really disliked the sudden pop-ups asking for something innocent like "do you really want to shut down/have your cat slaughtered by satanists/vote for Trump?" with the least convenient option being the default while I was busily typing at something (you know that Macs are used by pushing mice and touching pads; that's why you can remove keys, one after the other, without any user noticing it). It's the same with the update process; the keyboard is not flushed before the "shutdown or not" question so any extraneous return key will still be in the buffer. Shutting a machine down isn't as bad as messing up your boot disk (which I did on the Mac by accepting a system update I would not have accepted if I had time to read the pop-up) but you should always be careful with users… Their attitude might type first, think later. Achim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/ee71786a-1bf7-475b-3637-fee3a1e6bc38%40noses.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
