Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

[Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:21:51 pm Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 21:25, Matt Wheeler <m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2 August 2010 20:35, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When clicking "Install Updates" in update-manager, USER should be
> > > warned explicitly that doing so will require a restart. USER should
> > > know this
> > 
> > well,
> > 
> > > before updating.
> > > 
> > > *Does* Ubuntu warn the user beforehand that the updates about to be
> > > made will eventually require a restart? I can't recall..
> > 
> > A potential problem with the wording you've used is that users may be
> > put off actually doing the updates.
> 
> Today, i did my habitual sudo apt-get update, followed by my favourite sudo
> apt-get upgrade.
> gnome-terminal showed me this:
> 
> **user@machine:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common libwww-perl
>   linux-headers-2.6.32-24 linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic
>   linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic linux-libc-dev
> 8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 43.7MB of archives.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y**
> 
> As we all see, there is no notice about how installing a new linux kernel
> will require restarting the system to complete successfully..
> 
> Do we want to make updates so silent, that we don't notice them happening?
> Perhaps in that case it would make sense to leave the power icon on the top
> right corner of screen in its usual state, instead of coloring it in
> red-alert fashion.. !?

If you're using apt-get, then you aren't in the target audience Ayatana is 
designing for.

Scott K