Feature Idea: provide a graphical way to upgrade to F22 workstation

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 16 19:37:20 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > When a release is completely EOL, would it be possible to have a
> > notification that is persistant in some way? Not necessarily in the
> > shell chrome (too much?), but maybe whenever you go to Software. Or
> > maybe "All Settings" -- could the Details icon change to show an alert,
> > or gain a visual flag in some way?
> I'm not a huge fan of this.  It reminds me greatly of the
> notifications that e.g. McAfee continuously pops up on Windows when
> your virus definitions are out of date.  Not without good reason (and
> similar reasons), but really really annoying.  Some people will want
> to stick with an EOL release for whatever reason and constantly
> slapping them with an Alert warning is pointless.

I definitely I don't think there should be a repeating popup. Nothing
that slaps anyone, but something that gets lit up when you're looking
at a relevant part of the UI.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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