[haiku-development] Update vs. Full-Sync in SoftwareUpdater
- From: "Humdinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "humdingerb" for DMARC)
- To: haiku-development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 09:33:55 +0200
Hi there,
I decided to open this thread on the dev mailing list instead of
replying to Brian's commit, because it may profit from a wider
audience.
On 1 April 2017 at 18:50, <brianh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*New prompt at application start to choose between doing an Update or
a Full Sync. Also lays the ground work for implimenting silent
check-only feature.
Generally, I think this option is confusing to the user. Being a long
time Haiku user, I know that "full-sync" also does
downgrading/removing of apps. But I still find it hard to decide...
I've used the "update" command since it was available and it always
worked nicely. Recently I used "full-sync" once and had packages
uninstalled. Should I've stuck with "update"? When is a full-sync
necessary? How do I recognize such a situation?
I think many users will be confused and fearfully click on one or the
other button and hope for the best...
Can we avoid providing these options somehow?
Regards,
Humdinger
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