On Sunday 13 August 2006 00:24, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > update-notifier is a program made by the Ubuntu guys which puts a > notification icon in the notification area and warns the user about > updates being available, and allowing them to run update-manager (a > simple upgrade manager tool based on Synaptic). I think the Kubuntu developers have something along this lines based on the Adept package manager frontend > This is done in Ubuntu by communicating with GDM through a nice program > called gdm-signal, which was built using code from gnome-panel and some > more written by Rob Taylor, and which is distributed in Ubuntu's > powermanagement-interface package; I included this work in > update-notifier as a private program, for now, but maybe we should add > it to our gdm package? Ubuntu does not seem to have provisions for KDE; > if our KDE guys know how we'd go about doing the same for KDM, let me > know; same goes for XFCE and other desktops which support the > notification area protocol, and would, thus, be able to run > update-notifier. Since this is an Ubuntu development, I would guess that they have their KDE/XFCE developers already working on it. However, since this looks like a cross-desktop topic, a more viable solution for them might to draft a specification on freedesktop.org so it can be properly implemented upstream and doesn't have to be latched onto at the packaging level. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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