UX/Software Management/SUSE Updater/UbuntuEvaluation

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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.

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 and changes(new) at the bottom.

At this point there is no indication of whether a restart is required.

Screenshots:

TODO: Still need english screenshots. Currently no updates available.

• Notification:

• Review of available updates:

• Details of an update:

• Restart notification:

Notification of restart

Notification of restart is done by an additional icon in the notification area and a corresponding notification bubble.

Security

Authentication required: updates can only be applied if the user is in the administration group.

Information provided

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Technical details

Update application/applet started with session start. Checks every hour whether an refresh of the sources has occured and will show an icon in the notification area.

The refresh (apt-get update) is initiated by a cron job (by default once a day).

When user clicks install authentication is required and Synaptic is called with special options to provide a progress window (It is always the same progress window, whether you apply updates or install software).