Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Getting users to care (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Update manager])

[Charlie Kravetz <cjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:09:24 +0200
Alex Launi <alex.launi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:06 PM, tacone <tacone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Good intent, bad idea.
> >
> 
> I disagree, let's imagine this scenario, together...
> <blur and wiggle dream sequence style scene change>
> 
> It's Tuesday morning, you get up and turn on your computer. Whilst
> you were fast asleep dreaming of sugar plums and sexy librarians
> Ubuntu packagers were hard at work packaging updates for your
> favourite operating system. Now that it's morning, these updates are
> available, for you! You boot up and arrive at the slick new GDM. But
> what's this message?
> 
> "New updates available! Click here to install"
> 
> Some days you're very busy, and need your computer right away so you
> chose to ignore them and log right in. That's ok, they'll be
> available when you're ready. Update Manager shouldn't go away, you
> should be able to launch it yourself manually if you want to update
> once you've logged in and found out that DST was this weekend and
> you've got some extra time.
> 
> But today you decide to click. The interface changes nicely into a
> screen displaying what updates are available, and asking for your
> username and password to authorize install / log in. If you're not an
> administrator we will politely tell you that you can't perform an
> upgrade, and that you should let your administrator know that your
> system needs some updates. At this point we just finish the login,
> since you just gave us your info. Awesome.
> 
> Now let's say you are an admin, this update requires no reboot so we
> log you right in, and when the desktop is loaded there is already a
> dialog waiting giving you the progress of your update. You may
> continue working, you weren't cost much time, and your system is
> fully secure because you're up to date.
> 
> But next time there might be a kernel upgrade, which will require a
> restart. In this case we should ask the user what they'd like to do.
> In some cases the estimated time to finish (which we will show) may
> only be 2 minutes, and we can afford that so we just halt the login
> and modally install the upgrades, or we allow them to say "ok i
> recognize that this update will need a restart to apply, but I need
> my computer- so lets continue like there are no updates that require
> a reboot, and I will reboot when I'm ready.
> 
> <blur and wiggle dream sequence end style change>
> 
> Awesome, right?
> 

What about those who use an autologin? They will never see those gdm
screens.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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