[Bug 461647] kupdateapplet: gray out option " show available upgrades when backend provides them" if not supported by backend

If PackageKit is indeed lacking functionality to handle 3rd party updates (i.e. there is no fix that doesn't involves a big load of work), maybe an easy fix could be to gray out the "show available upgrades when backend provides them" option in the updater if the PackageKit plugin is selected. This way non-working functionality wouldn't be advertised to the user. PackageKit doesn't support package upgrades. That's the reason why the updater applet cannot show them. You are right, the settings dialog should gray out

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461647 User tgoettlicher@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461647#c4 Thomas Göttlicher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Enhancement Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Summary|KDE4 updater applet doesn't "show available |kupdateapplet: gray out option "show available |upgrades when backend provides them" |upgrades when backend provides them" if not | |supported by backend Status Whiteboard| |0x1F70 --- Comment #4 from Thomas Göttlicher 2009-01-02 04:42:06 MST --- (In reply to comment #3 from Stefan Tittel) options that aren't available. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.