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From: Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Getting users to care (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Update
manager])
To: Natan Yellin aan...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Natan
Alex Launi wrote:
David Siegel also had a really great idea for making updates fun (and it
also solves the issue of how to handle updates- notification icon or
pop-under window) at the install updates on shutdown discussion. Let me
preface this with these are his ideas and not mine, I think
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
...This was hilarious, sexy librarians and all...
Me personally, I don't have a *huge *issue presenting updates at the
beginning of a log-in sequence. As a user, you know they are there, and you
either ignore or proceed.
I can't help but think though, that when I login to my desktop normally,
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com
wrote:
What about those who use an autologin? They will never see those gdm
screens.
Like I said, update-manager doesn't go away. It just gets more or less
deprecated for most users. For this small subset we just
Awesome, right?
Not sure about what your whole reply meant.
I think that notifying on startup has many disadvantage and it's not
applicable in some cases (kernel upgrades, autologin).
It's not wonder windows why asks for it at the shutdown.
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Alex Launi wrote:
I disagree, let's imagine this scenario, together...
blur and wiggle dream sequence end style change
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
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM, mac_v drkv...@yahoo.com wrote:
AFAIK Auto downloads of the updates is far worse!
1: user might be using 3G at some point where the downloads cost a lot!
2: downloads while i'm watching streaming video content would cause the
lags in my videos which i would
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