On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 20:36 +0000, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > The default notification required a reboot to action. > > (If you ingore it and shutdown, the updates will not be carried out or > prompted at next boot). > > An issue is that even though you dont hve to reboot straight away, > knowing that there are updates that need to be applied through > rebooting is itself a nag. Too many and people will get desensitised > to the need to apply updates and that is IMO a bad thing. > > Knowing that your system is not up to date can also cause a feel of > unease when using the system. > > Updates are important but there is a social aspect to them too. > physical notification should be on a weekly basis and upon booting the > system they should be automatically applied or a prompt given so that > you can apply them and not boot, then reboot to get the updates. This is actually already how it works, or how it's designed to. It's not hard to confirm: read the settings in dconf org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates . It notifies of non-security updates once a week, and security updates immediately. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
