Re: Debian-update Gnome applet
Le lun 15/03/2004 à 16:53, Jerry Haltom a écrit :
> I'm wondering if this could be better implemented not as a panel applet.
>
> I envision:
>
> apt-get update being run in the background by root, perhaps as a cron
> job.
Package "cron-apt" already does that.
> A Gnome capplet or confiugration dialog that would allow you to change
> the same settings the update applet currently allows you to set,
> protected by gksu.
>
> A per user daemon that simply checks weither or not there are pending
> upgrades, and displays an icon in the notification tray. A right click
> contextual menu on this icon would allow you to enter the previously
> mentioned configuration screen (after prompting for root password
> (gksu)), as well as launch synaptic or your other prefered apt-getter.
>
>
> Yes I realize this is way different from how the applet is done now.
>
> I'm curious though, HOW is the applet done now? It's never once asked me
> for a password! Does it do the entire process as non-root without
> actually touching the real apt-repository??? Isn't that a whole lot of
> work?
>
>
> On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 19:26, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Jerry Haltom <jhaltom@feedbackplusinc.com> writes:
> > > Anyway to make it SMALLER? It's a massive applet.
> > >
> > > I just want a single icon.
> >
> > Yeah, me too -- with the existing `nothing to upgrade' text it takes up
> > about 1/4 of my panel!
> >
> > Ideally the general appearance should be small and almost unnoticeable
> > when there's nothing to upgrade, and become more noticeable when there
> > is something to upgrade...
> >
> > -Miles
> > --
> > `Life is a boundless sea of bitterness'
> >
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