[packagekit] Dealing with distro upgrades

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 23:51:36 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > At the moment PackageKit detects the distro upgrades if the backend
> > supports them, and then reports it to the user with a bubble like this:
> > 
> > http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-distro-upgrade-notify.png
> 
> Does "distribution upgrade" mean the right things to end user?  Maybe it 
> should say "Upgrade" instead of "more information"?

I think we need a whole lot of text there explaining what the message
means. My profile people didn't have a clue what it meant.

> > 		gnome-open http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
> 
> Might use xdg-open (xdg-utils package) here if you are planning to share 
> it with KDE or other frontends.

If it goes into PackageKit, sure, good plan. Thanks.

Richard.




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