Improving the offline updates user experience

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 09/12/2014 05:47 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:

> That's just not safe. Have you ever had firefox open and done a
> firefox update? Widgets start disappearing, redraws start having weird
> artifects and then after a little while it just crashes. Other
> applications like LibreOffice behave the same. Anyone that says things
> like "the old version of the library stays in memory" obviously hasn't
> actually done much real-world GUI programming in the last decade, or
> runs any kind of secure desktop system.

You are basically saying that "modern" software is just breaking
things which were perfectly solved decades ago.
If applications would just use libraries correctly, the kernel
would be able to let parts of deleted files be available for lazy
loading.

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