Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 01:34 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Even bugfix releases of KDE require a session restart to fully work.
>
> I consider that a serious design flaw in KDE and a strong argument
> against releasing any KDE updates to stable releases other than fixes
> for serious bugs. The only practical way to keep up with the Fedora
> update firehose is to update every day and let the update run in the
> background while I'm working. If I put it off until I'm about to turn
> the computer off, then the updates will accumulate and updating will
> take a long time when I finally do it. I might not have the time to sit
> around and wait for the update to finish so that I can turn the computer
> off, so I'll put it off again, and when the next opportunity comes the
> list of updates will have grown even more. That's a vicious circle I
> don't want to get into.
We do need a "apply all updates and shut down" option.
That doesn't help much if I'm going to pack the laptop up in a bag and take it
with me. I'll still have to sit there and twiddle my thumbs while it updates.
Björn Persson