There's way too much software for ths crap. Wouldn't it be easier to
completly nuke all that stuff from the distro and make a small agent
in python (with gui for QT and GTK+) to replace this ? :)
I mean for GNOME is quite trivial and I assume it's the same for KDE
:) People are probably loosing more time fixing stuff in several
packages than writting a simple agent that works as we want.
2012/8/24 Will Stephenson
On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 20:47:07 Dominik Baumann wrote:
first: sorry for inducing such a long thread, hope it wasn't in vain at the end ;-)
On 18.08.2012 07:42, Will Stephenson wrote:
I've been silently going ballistic :). It's buggy but throwing it out without fixing the bugs gives no way for a regular user to install updates without becoming root, as Martin points out.
Don't understand that: Both apper and yast ask me to authenticate as root when i want to install updates, so i see no advantage for apper here.
From polkit-default-privs changelog: * Thu Jul 12 2012 meissner@suse.com - allow logged in users to update the system via online updates. bnc#771189
If it's not working for you-> BUG^.
On 17.08.2012 15:35, Martin Schlander wrote:
Removing Apper means having no updater applet, no notification about available updates. There's no alternative to Apper for this.
In my opinion notifications don't help a lot when apper isn't able to install the notified updates (the buggy behaviour mentioned in my original post i can't reproduce now, but instead bug [1] appeares again).
I guess you mean our equivalent bug report? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737618 Is this still valid for 12.2? If so it must be moved to 12.2 so we know about it. Personally, I haven't seen it at all there.
Shouldn't it be easy for someone who knows how to access the notification area, to do something similar to the following crontab entry?:
10 10 * * 2 ( export DISPLAY=:0 ; kdialog --msgbox "`zypper --quiet patch-check`" )
Sadly it's not that simple, which is why utilities like Apper are needed.
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