GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 778949
Software tells me to restart in order to use new plugins, but there's no way to restart
Last modified: 2017-02-21 13:18:36 UTC
I just rebuilt my jhbuild gnome-software with the flatpak plugin, so I see the "GNOME Software needs to be restarted to use new plugins" message. Closing the window and relaunching doesn't have the desired effect - the message remains and the plugin isn't enabled. It turns out that the only way to restart is to manually kill the gnome-software process - not something that most users will know to do. The in-app notification should probably include a restart button. I'd also consider removing the close button, since we don't want people removing the notification without having restarted.
commit b4012c274e1ef2c14183f8f81fbc9e83ef92c903 Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> Date: Tue Feb 21 12:47:28 2017 +0000 Allow the user to restart the currently running gnome-software instance This can happen if new plugins have been installed at runtime or if the user has used something like jhbuild or rpm to live update a running instance. To do this, use a new helper process that watches for the D-Bus name correctly. Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778949