[packagekit] Moving the refresh stats out of the update viewer

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:44 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Actually, looking at the screenshot again, it is a bit unclear what
>> "cache refresh" vs "update" means there.
> 
> Cache refresh is one of those icky implementation details you wish you
> didn't have to care about. I'm sure it means nothing to my girlfriend.

The call it something better :)

Refresh cache:
"Check for available updates to your system"

Update:
"Download and install update to your system"
> 
> Maybe calling it something else might be more palatable? For reference,
> a cache refresh is done once a week, and does things like updates all
> the metadata (not just the update lists), rebuilds the application
> desktop cache and scans any new desktop files that were missed.
> 
> For most people, the weekly idle refresh might be good enough, but then
> there's always someone who adds a package using rpm and then wonders why
> it's not got the correct application icon in Add / Remove programs.
> Given we can tell this person to just do "pkcon refresh" on the command
> line, maybe no button is good enough.
> 

If you want to target novice user, you don't want have this kind of stuff in the gui or hide it in some kind of advanced
options dialog.

Tim