UX/Software Management/SUSE Updater/FedoraEvaluation

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Notification of updates

User gets notified by an icon that appears in the notification area, as soon as updates are available. Furthermore a notification bubble appears.

The icon of the applet stays in the notification area until the packages have been updated.

Notification bubble gives information on the number of updates available.

Presentation of updates

After clicking the notification icon, a window containing all updates is presented to the user. By highlighting an update, the user can see its description at the bottom.

An icon in the first column of the treeview indicates whether an update needs a restart of the system.

Screenshots:

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Notification of restart

Additionally to the indicators in the presentation of the updates, a notification after the updates have been applied will remind the user to restart the system.

Security

Authentication required: updates can only be applied by an user, who knows the root password.

Information provided

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Technical details

Runs as a daemon in the background. Can send notifications via DBUS (for the applet), mail or to syslog.

Network-Manager issue solved by hard time-out.