-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2010-05-11 a las 19:53 -0300, José Geraldo Gouvêa escribió:
Em Ter, 2010-05-11 às 23:05 +0200, Carlos E. R. escreveu:
I think you forgot to email to the list.
Suddenly I notice a small icon in the notification area of the gnome panel (11.2), which says it is a "adobe tracker alert", which probably wants to update the acrobat reader. This morning the reader warned about an update being available, which I ignored.
Should we be having this running in opensuse? Who/what starts that applet?
It says "Adobe Tracker Alert", so it must be something related to either Microsoft, Corel or WinZip.com. And the Reader warned about an update. So it must be something related to your MSN password being lost.
EUMMM!?!?! :-O
Only joking, ;-)
Ahhhh! You got me unawares X'-)
Now serious...
Ok :-)
And YOU does not see any update.
If I click on "preferences" for the applet, I get the "preferences" dialog of the acrobat reader, tracker tab, but I do not see a setting for disabling it.
Or I'm understanding it wrong.
Adobe Reader is closed source software, that's why the packagers can't disable the warning.
I thought it might be a separate binary. Or that it might be optional somehow.
They just grab the most recent files from Adobe and translate their contents into an rpm. However, when a new version is out and it hasn't been packaged yet, this is the situation you come to: a program claiming for an update that's not available in the system.
Mmmm... yes. True, It also happens with some open source projects, like clamav.
You may choose between waiting for someone packaging the new Reader or removing the packaged version and getting the new one directly from Adobe.
I prefer to wait. But it is a nuisance, it keeps asking for updating every time I start acroread.
A third, more reasonable, option is to dump the Reader and replace it by Evince or Okular or (if you absolutely love non-free software) Foxit Reader...
I have and use evince, and even xpdf :-p The thing is, there are features that are not available in those readers, or do not work well. Or simply display wrongly. For example, signing keys. I have a series of receipts from a gas company that silently crash evince. And no, I can not provide them for study, they contain private data. Ah, I see I also have okular in that machine [...] Those files display with okular well, but no signing data/verification. This means that often I have to try which of the pdf viewers can display properly each file, and compare with what acroread displays, to check for errors. Or directly open with acroread. - -- Saludos Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvp7gsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UO1gCeJE+yZ/QOjGLvp7IlnXeB4cGO uCMAnAxHUxYDx9OXyD/dH8OylOvLeb96 =MhEC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----