Hi :) I'm on an Xp machine (well on the Windows side of a dual-boot machine) and LO 4.0.3 has a tiny little green arrow on the far right at the top just under the minimise, window, close buttons. When i wave the mouse arrow over it a tool-tips yellow bubble appears telling me an update is available.
Sadly when i click on that the magic doesn't happen. It just opens a tab in Firefox taking me to the downloads page. Something else i find odd about the UI is that sometimes the "Save" button/icon looks like a floppy-disk (anyone else remember them?) and sometimes has a more modern, errr green arrow again. I was proudly boasting to someone that LO was so advanced that it was the 1st program to move away from using the floppy-disk icon and then he showed me it was still there. Grrrr Anyway, getting back on-topic it seems the protable version has been released at last. Florian did his magic tricks and it's appeared. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> >To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >Cc: Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com>; Virgil Arrington ><cuyfa...@hotmail.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" ><users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 17:15 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming out? > > >2013/6/27 Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > >> Hi :) >> Ok, that makes sense. The problem now is to make the upgrade smoother so >> it's easier to upgrade within a branch, eg from >> 4.0.1 to >> 4.0.2 and onwards. >> >> Preferably not completely automatic but easy enough so that users can >> click on the upgrade button even if they don't have Super User / Admin >> level privileges. Like Firefox allows. >> >> At the moment i think people still have to download and do a fresh install >> of the newer release even if it is in the same branch. >> >> I do get the impression that is what the devs are aiming for anyway. The >> little green arrow is fairly new. At the moment it just lets you know >> there is a new version to download but it looks like one day it will be >> possible to just click on that and sit back to watch the magic. >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> > >Generally speaking, Tom, my experience is that one has to go to the >LibreOffice website and download the latest and greatest step every time it >is released ; it is rarely that I see an update notice and that little >green arrow. The above holds true for Windows 7 and 8 ; on Linux Mint all I >have to do is wait for the Ubuntu PPAs to get updated - it took perhaps a >little more than a week after the 4.0.4.2 was released for it automatically >to beinstalled over 4.0.3.3. Hitherto I'm ver impressed with it - it seems >to load even more quickly than its predecessor. Kudos to the developers !... > >Henri > > >> >________________________________ >> > From: Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> >> >To: Virgil Arrington <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> >> >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >> >Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 15:43 >> >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming >> out? >> > >> > >> >On 06/26/2013 05:45 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> >> This question makes me wonder, just why there are so many LO versions >> >> and frequent new releases. I can't keep up, and I find myself torn >> >> about upgrading. I want the latest and greatest, but I've had problems >> >> with newer versions resurrecting old bugs. >> >> >> >> I'm sure there's an overriding philosophy that has been adopted, but I >> >> wonder if we might be better served with fewer new releases. >> >> >> >> Apache seems to have taken quite the opposite approach with no new >> >> releases of AOO since its 3.4.1. Perhaps something somewhere between >> >> the two extremes might be nice. >> > >> >One of our devs is going to do a bit about this after the EOL of 3.6 but >> >this chart should help: >> > >> >https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/2c/LibOReleaseLifecycle.png >> > >> >also this might help a little, >> > >> >https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-June/msg00041.html >> > >> >There is a rationale behind our release schedule. Ultimately just >> >because the version is out, doesn't mean users have to upgrade, each >> >release has a purpose. >> > >> > >> >Warm Regards, >> >Joel >> > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
