On 2/12/2014 2:57 PM, Peter wrote: Just out of curiosity, do others here on this list use Apper or do you disable it and use zypper/YaST?
On 13/02/14 00:02, John Andersen wrote:
I use it, and it works for me. Mostly I just use it to notify me that there are updates.
I will usually go into yast to install the updates, but some time I just click on the tray icon and let it do it, especially if there are just a few.
I'm still on 12.3, and it always works.
Hmm, I wonder how you'll find the 13.1 implementation then. Though I never really used it before, from what I remember, via the system tray widget in 12.3 you could access the main Apper window and manage other aspects of packages in addition to reviewing the proposed installs, but with this new version of the updater in 13.1 it seems you can only expand each item and accept / decline. When clicking on the + sign, it showed further details of each package after a fresh OS install a few days ago but since then only ever produces a big red cross and the message 'Failed to get update details'. On 13/02/14 00:06, Karl Sinn wrote:
I use xfce and this package is called pk-update-icon here. For every SuSE installation i make it the first package that receives the "never install" flag in Yast.
I "hate" this piece of software as it reminds me to windows. It has no option to shut it down, nor turn it off completely .... it should therefore be excluded from openSuSE IMHO ;) Karl
I'm not sure I've ever noticed it on the machine I have XFCE installed on. Perhaps it didn't get pulled in by default during installation. Since for a few releases now (although I recall some such updater going right back to the SuSE 9.x series) openSUSE has been undecided about going with any one package management solution, it would be nice if there were some overarching control within YaST. I manage a couple of multi-user desktops and having to go into every account and turn off Apper is a bit fiddly. I guess I can just uninstall it, or I can hope that one day they implement a version that functions better and that I find more convenient. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org