Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier
hi,
Le dimanche 13 août 2006 15:45, Kevin Krammer a écrit :
> 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.
like kevin said kubuntu use adept to achieve this:
adept - package management suite for KDE
adept-common - package manager for KDE -- common files
adept-installer - simple user interface for application management (for KDE)
adept-manager - package manager for KDE
adept-notifier - system tray notifier of available system updates
adept-updater - system update tool for KDE
adept-notifier runs adept-updater to update the system.
cheers,
Fathi
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