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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    KSystemUpdate
From:       Johan De Messemaeker <johan.demessemaeker () telenet ! be>
Date:       2005-11-11 11:10:25
Message-ID: 200511111210.25764.johan.demessemaeker () telenet ! be
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Hi,

I tried to boot XP on my dual-boot machine yesterday. I was amazed to notice 
that after the login I had to wait for quite some time to have a workable, 
'snappy' system (a few minutes but it seemed a lot longer :P). In that time, 
multiple programs tried to connect to the net and check for updates and such: 
firewall, antivirus, utilities here and there. The fact that I haven't used 
the XP system for a few weeks probably made it worse (MORE checks).

I figure that it will become only a matter of time until similar problems 
exist on the KDE platform. Yes, I am hopefull and I really do believe that 
commercial programs will become available en masse for the KDE platform after 
the transition to KDE 4.0 will be made :)

I would like to know how the list feels about a KSystemUpdate utility. This 
utility should provide a consistent and simple frontend that will be able to  
update various parts of the system by the click of a mousebutton. Naturally, 
it is the responsibility of the various distributions to implement the actual 
backend. A commercial program should be able to register itself to the 
utility in some way wich should provide enough information to the utility to 
present the user with a proper and simple upgrade dialog.

For example: I'm writing this now on FreeBSD 6.0/KDE 3.4.3. A simple 'Check 
for updates' should be able to tell me if updates are available through ports 
or cvsup (kernel, system). I should be able to simply select the parts I 
would like to update and a few mouseclicks and some time later I should have 
an updated system.

I do acknowledge that some things won't be this easy as they require some 
serious interaction (FreeBSD mergemaster(8) for example) but for most users 
and configurations, this would be sufficient.

Opinions, thoughts ?

Regards, Johan
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