On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 13:19 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi, folks. For QA purposes, I wanted to get some clarification on the > current status of package management and updating on KDE. > > It seems that recently dnfdragora-gui was added to the KDE spin. This > has at least one, obvious, unfortunate consequence: when booting KDE > live, there's a completely out-of-place (because it's in full color, > while every other KDE systray icon is in black-and-white) permanent > 'notification' icon for 'dnfdragora-updater', which doesn't seem to be > of any use in a live environment. > > Beyond this: what's the actual intended shape of package management and > updates on KDE now? Is dnfdragora supposed to be responsible for all of > it, or is...some other thing...supposed to handle updating, and > dnfdragora is only supposed to be there for installing / removing? > > As a reminder, this release criterion is in effect at Beta: > > "The installed system must be able to download and install updates with > the default graphical package manager in all release-blocking > desktops." > > and this one at Final: > > "Release-blocking desktops must notify the user of available updates, > but must not do so when running as a live image." > > So it'd be good to have the story here clear and be sure the criteria > are met ASAP. > > Thanks! I've now checked an installed system; it seems like *both* dnfdragora and the previous update manager are checking for updates. I saw a '48 updates available' message pop up above the dnfdragora icon, and there's also the 'up-arrow-in-a-circle' icon, with the tooltip: Software Updates You have 48 new updates This probably isn't what's intended, is it? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
