[Frugalware-devel] [RFC] start fun by default?

[Gabriel C]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> hi,

Hi,

> 
> i just recently realized that we have this great tool, fun, but if it's
> not started by default then probably an avarage user won't even notice
> it.
> 
> so what about starting it by default? it would ping the users again and
> again to install security updates which is not a bad idea i think.
> 
> of course if someone does not like so, it can be still disabled.

You can disable until next fun upgrade/update and that's bad.

Eg: to auto enable it you have to *force* the service to start from install
script.[*]

> 
> or is this too agressive and should we forget about it?

IHMO fun is not ready for that *yet* ( where yet is 0.8 ) it need some fixing first.

1) Allow the service to be started from 'fun' itself.
   Like we do for gfpm  which auto detects kde,gk{su} or sudo , then we easy can start the 
   service as 'user'.

[*] At the moment you get this when the daemon is not running:

- fun
ERROR: The name org.frugalware.FWUpdateNotifier was not provided by any .service files

** ERROR **: Failed to connect to the fun daemon

aborting...
Trace/breakpoint trap

Which is bad isn't it ?

2) Add some option to fun to make it shut up * permanently * if someone does not want it
 ( probably it could be done with autostart / desktop files and some config file also ) 
  until 'someone' re-enable it :P


> 
> if not, then we could update the relevant xfce/kde/gnome packages to do
> this.
> 
> hmm?
>

I like the idea but really fun need some fixing for doing that and is to late for 0.8 I think.

Of course if priyank can / want fix | implement these things in that short time before 0.8 I'm all for it.

> - VMiklos
> 


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