On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 6:29 AM Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> wrote: > > https://invent.kde.org/system/distro-release-notifier may help > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:09 AM Erich Eickmeyer <eeickme...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > In Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, we rely on Discover and the Discover Notifier > > to run our GUI-based package updates. I don't care if you personally use > > apt periodically from the terminal, a case can be made that we expect our > > users to use Discover to do their updates. > > > > > > Unfortunately, Discover is very, very flawed. It uses packagekit as its > > backend and its upgrader is designed to do one thing: upgrade packages. By > > comparison, the Ubuntu Update Manager will give the user the option to > > remove unused packages, unused kernels. and even notify of new Ubuntu > > releases, which is something that Discover cannot do since it's built to be > > as distribution-agnostic as possible.
Plasma Discover *can* support all these things. That is dependent on the PackageKit backend and whether your distribution ships AppStream metadata to identify your operating system and its upgrade path. This is something that is being worked on for Fedora KDE, so I'm aware of the possibility. -- Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel