Update Checker

[shaggytwodope]

Might head to bed soon, or at least lay down for tv lol. But here is another video for folks.


https://puu.sh/nktfB/1751856da5.webm

[LL-user]

Hi Shaggy,

Another possible option for preferences would be restricting the updates only to security updates.
If someone is out and about and just wants to make sure possible security holes are closed, there wouldn't be the need to download a huge libre office update - if it's not a security patch of course

[shaggytwodope]

Hi Shaggy,

Another possible option for preferences would be restricting the updates only to security updates.
If someone is out and about and just wants to make sure possible security holes are closed, there wouldn't be the need to download a huge libre office update - if it's not a security patch of course

This will take some consideration, security update is a relative term. Minor fixes for some things, may not always be marked as such. Notability with ppa packages. Which ALOT of users have installed. This feature will be considered for sure, but no promises. My personal intent atm is to provide a means of displaying amount of possible updates. But not all packages with security updates may be flagged as such with how debian/ubuntu/ppa's work in general.

That being said, any and all ideas are welcomed. I try not to influence things with my personal tastes within reason lol.

[Valtam]

For all folks, always remain focused on our target audience, Windows users and new folk to linux, not existing linux users. We cannot assume in Linux Lite, we need to spell things out and make them easy to understand. Remember, grandma has to look at this app and understand what it does. It needs to stay simple and not 'over-optioned'.

[Wirezfree]

Maybe I missed this.?, if Not
If it is running, does the actual tray icon change colour to reflect status.?
Like:
Green  = Running & No Updates
Yellow  = Running & Updates Available
Red    = Running, but problems like, No Internet, Repository Not responding

Blue    = Running, But Updates checks not enabled

[Coastie]

Nice! How about either days or hours check? Checking once a day is enough to me.

[fishmanluvslinux]

I am waiting patiently. =]

[shaggytwodope]

New video of stuff in progress.




https://puu.sh/nlzqt/7cb86f019d.webm

[shaggytwodope]

Nice! How about either days or hours check? Checking once a day is enough to me.

This is relative, the current option is based in seconds. I'll try to figure out a "daily" option... maybe something that cancels out the seconds option. But you can still set the time in seconds per 24 hours. Which would be 86400 seconds. I personally think something in the range of 3600 is ok. There is room to improve all of this, as I have time I'll try to improve on any options. But remember I'm only one person, And I get nothing from my work but helping some people adopt Linux hopefully.

If Jerry wants to make a release soon for people to test (I need testers and info reported back to improve things) otherwise any dev work will be shared here. And the code is available on my github: https://github.com/shaggytwodope/lite-updater with no packaging or installer yet.

[shaggytwodope]

After a few hours of hacking away. We now have minutes and hour option in the config. This time is added together and works wonderfully as of this post. Save for any testing from users.






Thanks for all the input, Always motivates development. Remember any new ideas are welcome... but no promises lol.