On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org
wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 00:20 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org>
>
wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 14:48 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > > > Automatic updates of apps is a frequent request I hear from users. If
> > > > they use Firefox Nightly for Flatpak which gets updated every day,
> > > > they
> > > > just get tired of updating it manually.
> > >
> > > I have no opinion on automatic updates, but we can never in any
> > > circumstance prompt the user to install updates every single day.
> > > That's crazy. If they want to check daily, fine, but prompts are
> > > supposed to be weekly.
> > >
> > > Michael
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> > In my opinion, we shouldn't even prompt the user to update apps if
> updating
> > the app doesn't require a reboot - we should just update.
> > Android updates apps automatically if you're on wifi and charging, I
> think
> > it works well. Users can disable auto-update for individual apps if they
> > need to.
>
> This is the kind of thinking that made my laptop blow through my
> cellphone data plan limit in about fifteen minutes while I was
> tethering.
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Well, that's why we should make sure to not do it on metered connections.
There are all kinds of heuristics we could use to detect a metered
connection (idk which ones are actually implemented, if any), and there
should also be a checkbox to mark a connection as metered if the detection
fails, imo. NetworkManager already has the relevant API for this.
--
-Elad.