F22: Software for update

[Eric Griffith]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 29 September 2015 at 14:50, Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Installing applications is fine but updates always seem to take two-three
> > times as long to display available updates vs me running "dnf update" and
> > getting a package list back.
>
> gnome-software is actually depsolving and downloading the updates
> before it returns the list to the user; dnf is just showing the list,
> and then downloads when you update.
>

That seems like a really bad idea.. The icon for "check for updates" gives
off the perception of "check" or "refresh", I would not assume either of
those actions would actually download the updates. It leads to a bad user
experience, as evident above, where the user just thinks Gnome Software is
slow. Even I, as an advanced user, didn't think to myself "Oh I bet they
are downloading packages in the background", I just stopped using Gnome
Software for updates because I thought it was slow.  There's also the fact
that if the connection is metered then we just ripped through a chunk of
their data. To top it off it breaks the established flow of every other
update system-- yum never downloaded the packages as part of the check, DNF
doesn't, App Store / Play Store don't download as part of a check, Windows
Update doesn't, OS X Software Update doesn't, System Update for iOS and
Android don't. I'm all for experimenting with new paradigms and trying
different work flows, but this one just seems like a bad idea.
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