Re: Debian-update Gnome applet
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.
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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