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• Launchpad Entry: update-manager-app-view

• Packages affected: update-manager, app-install-data

Summary

Abstracting packages on the application/section level in update-manager.

Release Note

The view of available updates has been simplified. Instead of all the software core and technical package names you now get a list of applications and system components that needs to be updated. Furthermore a notification informs you which application has to be restarted after the update.

Rationale

We already provide an application abstraction for software with gnome-app-install. But in update-manager the user still faces the technical package names. The idea is too reduce and simplify the list with terms the user already knows.

Use Cases

Assumptions

Design

The alternate list of available updates is created by collecting all applications that are included in the corresponding binary package. Furthermore we hide all packages that do not contain any application if another binary package of the common source package is already listed (aka. contains an application). All other packages are grouped by their section: e.g. libgtk-2.0, libglade2, libgnomevfs would summarized under a single update "GNOME Desktop components".

Finally making use of the Exec attribute of the application we could look if an updated application is currently running. If so the user would get a notifcation to restart the application.

Implementation

UI Changes

Code Changes

Migration

N/a.

Test/Demo Plan

Outstanding Issues

BoF agenda and discussion

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