On Dec 16, 2014 12:37 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > When a release is completely EOL, would it be possible to have a
> > > notification that is persistant in some way? Not necessarily in the
> > > shell chrome (too much?), but maybe whenever you go to Software. Or
> > > maybe "All Settings" -- could the Details icon change to show an alert,
> > > or gain a visual flag in some way?
> > I'm not a huge fan of this. It reminds me greatly of the
> > notifications that e.g. McAfee continuously pops up on Windows when
> > your virus definitions are out of date. Not without good reason (and
> > similar reasons), but really really annoying. Some people will want
> > to stick with an EOL release for whatever reason and constantly
> > slapping them with an Alert warning is pointless.
>
> I definitely I don't think there should be a repeating popup. Nothing
> that slaps anyone, but something that gets lit up when you're looking
> at a relevant part of the UI.
>
> --
> Matthew Miller
> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fedora Project Leader
> --
It would be logical to me that a user attempting to check for updates on an EOL release would get an EOL warning. Not just looking at Software, or logging into GNOME, but *every time* they explicitly set out to get updates.
--Pete
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