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Bug 687149 - inconsistent behaviour wrt to offline updates
inconsistent behaviour wrt to offline updates
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 683745
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: updates
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Richard Hughes
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-29 20:44 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2013-01-21 15:33 UTC
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Description Matthias Clasen 2012-10-29 20:44:06 UTC 
I just got a 'Important software updates are available' notification. I assume that comes from the gsd updates plugin. It has an 'Install updates' button, which brings up gpk-update-viewer - and if I click 'Install' in there, updates get installed the old-fashioned way, no trace of offline goodness.

This is pretty inconsistent, and confusing.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2012-10-29 21:01:18 UTC 
What should the notification say if we've already downloaded the updates? I figured that if the updates are important (or security) then the user would want to install them straight away, live, so to speak.

In gnome-software, any os update packages prompt the user to reboot after the non-os-update packages are live updated. But we're not using this yet, so that's maybe not relevant.

Maybe I can just reword the notification to:

* Updates *
An important software update is available
[ Restart and install updates ]

This would be quite easy to do without making the user click a button and then click another button. Ideas welcome. Thanks.

Richard.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2012-10-29 21:31:57 UTC 
Ok, so this is probably a duplicate of bug 683745.

The recommendation on #gnome-design seems to be to reword the action to be 'View' (maybe in addition to 'Reboot and Install'). 'View' should bring up the update viewer like we do now, and the update viewer should have a button to trigger the same 'Reboot and install' action that we have in the shell menu.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2013-01-21 15:33:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 683745 ***