[Bug 158657] Revamp the online update dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158657

--- Comment #1 from Stephan Bergmann <sberg.fun at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #0)
> With the latest changes to the online update mechanism the existing dialog
> as shown here 
>  https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-update-libre-writer-there-is-no-update-
> options-button-missing-online-update becomes more crowded as shown in
> https://pasteboard.co/G2LZ2NuLWXJo.png.
> 
> I struggle with 
> [x] Check for updates automatically
> [ ] Enable automatic updates
> 
> If the two options are mutually we can use radio buttons, if the automatic
> update just applies the update we could change the wording (and make it
> depending ie. disabled from the "check for updates" option).

There are two features involved here:

1  --enable-online-update, for the traditional mechanism of checking for
updates, notifying the user about available updates, and potentially also
downloading an update's msi file (but never automatically applying such
updates, but leaving that to be done manually by the user).  Most of the option
pane is about this feature, from "Check for updates automatically" all through
to "Privacy Policy".

2  --enable-online-upate-mar, for the Mozilla-technology-based mechanism of
checking for updates periodically, downloading an update's mar file, and on the
next start of soffice automatically updating the LO installation with that mar
file.  The part of the option pane that is about this feature is the bottom
part "Automatic Update" and "Enable automatic update".

The first feature is tried and tested for a long time now, while the second
feature had rotten a bit and is now about to be resurrected.  The intent is to
have the second feature available but off by default for now, let it mature for
a while on LO 24.2, and eventually drop the first feature completely and have
the second feature on by default.

At least technically, these two features are not mutually exclusive.  So, to
have the first feature remain available for now, and the second feature to be
available for the venturous users to enable and try out, the idea was to have
two individual sets of checkboxes that control each of the two features
individually.

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