[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] optional automatic updates

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:58 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 08:40:26AM -0400, Martin Abente wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback, please notice that we already support
> > automatic updates. This feature is simply to extend this microformat
> > to mark some activities in the list so they don't get automatically
> > updated or installed (ie., when they are too big for doing it
> > massively).
>
> The perceived size of a download depends on the actual size, and the
> bandwidth available.
>
> Does the updater handle stop and continue of download, and give any
> indication of the duration expected?


No, and yes. When the user go to the control panel and use the updater,
see the activity size and can unselect a activity.


> Users will be more willing to
> try massive updates (e.g. new Wikipedia activity) if they can be more
> in control.
>
> Also, it would be nice if the updater provided updates to nearby
> users.  ;-)
>
>
There are many other possible improvements to the updater... :)



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