GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 715171
improve update review
Last modified: 2018-01-24 16:48:28 UTC
We currently notify and offer to review the just-installed offline update. The implementation is based on the presence / removal of a certain file, and is somewhat fragile. It would be nicer to have this backed by a database of past offline updates. Once we have that, we can also offer to review past offline updates, beyond just the most recent one.
Further points: - We should not append the (1) / show the number of updates on the update review screen. That is confusing, since the button is not active, so it gives the message that there is another page whre one can see a certain number of updates. - We should somehow indicate that this page is about reviewing already installed updates. Currently, that is pretty hard to notice, since the ui is identical to looking at _available_ updates. One option might be to hide the button box and instead show a title like "Recently installed updates" or so.
I'd love some design attention before I work too much on the backend.
We could potentially show the last installed round of updates in an updates review dialog (see bug 727981), which would be accessible from the app menu ("Recent Software Updates"). I'd like to be clear about why this would be used before adding it though. :)
I'm not really sure how interesting it is to view the history of previous updates. "What just got installed?" is an interesting question. "What got installed two months ago" isn't so much, is it?
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