[Gnumed-devel] Re: detect a newer version is available

[James Busser]

On 5-May-08, at 5:25 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote
(in     Re: [Gnumed-devel] <bug>: sprechzimmer 1)
> > Ubuntu has the 0.2.8.6 version in a seperate repository as well  
> > but users
> > might not be aware of those.
> We will have client-based notification of updates in 0.2.9.

As an additional suggestion, Apple's interface includes , in the  
Apple menu, "Software Update..." and also, in the System Preferences,  
a "Software Update" control panel.

The menu item (ours would be in a GNUmed client menu) works as follows:

- on invoking, proceeds immediately to check for updates and while  
doing so gives a notice and progress thermometer. If anything is  
found, the available updates are listed and below the list is a text  
area. Clicking any item in the list reveals any supplied "Update  
information".

- if there is nothing new, the user is given an alert "Your software  
is up to date. (and in smaller text) Software Update doesn't have any  
new software for your computer at this time." An OK button will  
dismiss both this alert and the update information window beneath.

- if there is something new... etc

For the preference settings, Apple's panel has 2 panes (screenshots  
attached)

"Update software" offers
- - whether to check for updates automatically (Daily Weekly or Monthly)
- - whether to download in the background... I think the difference  
is that in the foreground, even while other applications can in fact  
continue to be run in the front-most GUI layers, updates can demand  
that the user will quit some current applications (which in our case  
might apply to GNUmed) and may demand that the user restart the  
computer. I imagine that this is avoided when the user simply has the  
updates downloaded in the background, until the updates are run. The  
only thing would be they would then need some reminder that they had  
already downloaded new versions.
-- a "Check Now" button
- an "Installed Updates" pane with a filter field (although we would  
hopefully not fill a window with such a long list) and one additional  
button "Open as Log file" which opens the Mac file "Software Update.log"

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