Hello, I'm not sure I have all my facts straight -and by all means, please help straighten them out-, but I would like to address Adam's original proposals. This is more of an issue for Workstation and the spins destined for desktop use, so any possible solution needs to rely on Anaconda/Initial Setup and each DE. In essence, we need a script that runs with elevated privileges and disables/enables the makecache timer and Packagit. This could then be wrapped in zenity or whatever similar works in every DE. I think this would work regardless of NetworkManager's presence, metered connection detection etc.. Would it be unfeasible to craft an Initial Setup add-on that runs after the EULA screen, displays a notification explaining background data usage and allows the user to turn it off (temporarily)? Since having updates turned off indefinitely is a Bad Thing™, this add-on could spawn a systemd service that checks if the makecache timer and PackageKit have been disabled and if so, throw a nag screen (which could be disabled, but not too easily ;) ) every n minutes/hours/days. After the first run, every DE could have each own (control) panel item/button/widget to enable toggling automatic updates on and off. All of the above would require a) the Initial Setup add-on, b) a systemd service and/or timer and c) a DE-specific package to alter the state of things, which would have to be among the default packages in each DE group. Having looked at the code of yumex, it doesn't look that difficult to adapt the toggle to work with any underlying package management system, at least the mainstream ones. Perhaps each DE could enhance it even further, e.g. GNOME could integrate gnome-online-accounts, so users could selectively disable specific sync activities or any background data-consuming jobs altogether. And now that I re-read what I have written, is this work that can be done in Fedora or would we have to work with upstream from the get-go? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
