[packagekit] Your Up Date Application

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 06/02/2009 03:53 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 23:20 -0400, Fred Walker wrote:
>>> Just a suggestion for your up-date application.  I currently have Fedora
>>> 10 installed.  I have a very slow dial-up connection.  It is all that is
>>> available where I live at this time.  Therefore it would be nice if your
>>> Up-date application allowed for a specific time under the daily check
>>> for up dates.  I would like to set mine for 1:00 AM so this task could
>>> run while I am sleeping.  I'm sure others would find this useful also.
>>> Anyway thanks for your work.
>>
>> I've forwarded this to the mailing list, I hope this is okay. Would
>> anyone else find this functionality useful?
>
> Yes. There are some ISP's plans where night time doesn't have a
> bandwidth cap for example. It is useful to be able to do this.

I'm not sure of the UI for this... add another entry to the combo box:

| Hourly
| Weekly
| Daily
| Never
| At a specific time

Or just make sensitive a checkbox when daily is selected:

[ X ] At a specific time

And then provide a drop down combobox:

8AM
10AM
12AM
2PM
4PM
6PM
8PM
10PM
etc..

Or is there a generic time selector we should use? Ideas welcome.

Also, if the user has specified daily as the policy and the time set
to 2AM, what do we do if the user never leaves the computer switched
on overnight?

Richard.