Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 03:34, Basil Chupin wrote:
Stephen Boddy wrote:
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Re the updating of info about new updates being available, I find that going into the smart Manager and Updating the Channels manually is what needs to be done occasionally. Don't forget that smart is only in its infancy (it's beta 0.42) and manual intervention is probably still required at this point in time. The icon in the system tray sometime comes up with new updates being available and sometimes not.
Yeah, thinking on this the best way is probably to ignore the password so that it always starts as a regular user process, and have a seperate cron job to do the "smart update" command. Then when the tray icon does it's checks it tanks on the "smart update" part, but when it does the "smart check" it reads the results after the cron job. This will then blink the icon. (I've looked at the source for ksmarttray, and it literally runs those shell commands)
I guess I am just a bit 'confused' (which matters not) about your concerns because the tray icon DOES blink when there are new updates available for installation. The only thing I find wrong with this blinking is that once you put the cursor on the icon the blinking stops. And the other thing I would like to see is it change colour to indicate new updates like the icon for the zmd/zen/YOU - but this, and the previous point, is only a cosmetic thing and really of no great import.
All this just seems a bit clunky and redundant for what should be a simple little user level notifier. The additional beneift is the update command can be nice'd to hopefully reduce any perceived impact of running the update regularly.
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