[Ext] Update Notifier 0.1.5.5 - Get Extension/Theme updates
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Re: Indicator for application updates
wer wrote:Does the extension also look for application updates? If yes, what would the indicator look like? And what would the indicator look like if there were theme and extension updates at the same time?
Wer
No, it doesn't. And anyway, what would be the point in this also notifying of application updates? Firefox already does that by itself, and it's much more obvious than the way this extension does it for extensions and themes. Also, the option to auto-install app updates when they are found is on by default (and is easily disabled from Options>Advanced>Update).
On the extensions and themes at same time... um... wait and see, I guess.
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Re: Indicator for application updates
wer wrote:And what would the indicator look like if there were theme and extension updates at the same time?
XerBlade wrote:On the extensions and themes at same time... um... wait and see, I guess.
update extension: blue up arrow
update theme: green up arrow
update extension and theme: both up arrows beside each other
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A lot of suggestions for new features...
I have some to:
1) localization support, please join BabelZilla (www.babelzilla.org). I'll have the Dutch translation ready for you.
2) give the user before installing a (optional) list of all the available updates/themes and allow the user to deselect one of more updates that he doesn't want to install yet, whatever his reasons are.
3) In the en-localization file updatenotifier.dtd I found 2 entries who doesn't appear in the option screen:
opts-notifications
opts-notifications-display
Are they new options to put a message on the screen if there where new updates?
Alf
I have some to:
1) localization support, please join BabelZilla (www.babelzilla.org). I'll have the Dutch translation ready for you.
2) give the user before installing a (optional) list of all the available updates/themes and allow the user to deselect one of more updates that he doesn't want to install yet, whatever his reasons are.
3) In the en-localization file updatenotifier.dtd I found 2 entries who doesn't appear in the option screen:
opts-notifications
opts-notifications-display
Are they new options to put a message on the screen if there where new updates?
Alf
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howdy y'all,
feeping creature-itis ... um, er ... i mean "creeping feature-itis" ... [*grin*]
this ext is a nice, narrowly defined one. i like that. it's also one that will NOT be needed anymore when ff and tb get update notification back. it IS going to happen as the patches have been worked on. slowly, but they are getting there.
anyway, adding anything OTHER than ext/theme update notification is going to get iffy. i would even recommend stripping out the "install updates" command. [*grin*] it interferes with the archiving feature of mtli. having a command to open the EM/TM is nice and actually quite straight forward, but the other stuff is "feeping creature-itis".
take care,
lee
feeping creature-itis ... um, er ... i mean "creeping feature-itis" ... [*grin*]
this ext is a nice, narrowly defined one. i like that. it's also one that will NOT be needed anymore when ff and tb get update notification back. it IS going to happen as the patches have been worked on. slowly, but they are getting there.
anyway, adding anything OTHER than ext/theme update notification is going to get iffy. i would even recommend stripping out the "install updates" command. [*grin*] it interferes with the archiving feature of mtli. having a command to open the EM/TM is nice and actually quite straight forward, but the other stuff is "feeping creature-itis".
take care,
lee
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Lee_Dailey wrote:howdy y'all,
feeping creature-itis ... um, er ... i mean "creeping feature-itis" ... [*grin*]
this ext is a nice, narrowly defined one. i like that. it's also one that will NOT be needed anymore when ff and tb get update notification back. it IS going to happen as the patches have been worked on. slowly, but they are getting there.
anyway, adding anything OTHER than ext/theme update notification is going to get iffy. i would even recommend stripping out the "install updates" command. [*grin*] it interferes with the archiving feature of mtli. having a command to open the EM/TM is nice and actually quite straight forward, but the other stuff is "feeping creature-itis".
take care,
lee
Unfortunately though, Lee, not everyone uses MTLI, no matter how handy it really is.
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Cato62 wrote:Lee_Dailey wrote:howdy y'all,
feeping creature-itis ... um, er ... i mean "creeping feature-itis" ... [*grin*]
this ext is a nice, narrowly defined one. i like that. it's also one that will NOT be needed anymore when ff and tb get update notification back. it IS going to happen as the patches have been worked on. slowly, but they are getting there.
anyway, adding anything OTHER than ext/theme update notification is going to get iffy. i would even recommend stripping out the "install updates" command. [*grin*] it interferes with the archiving feature of mtli. having a command to open the EM/TM is nice and actually quite straight forward, but the other stuff is "feeping creature-itis".
take care,
lee
Unfortunately though, Lee, not everyone uses MTLI, no matter how handy it really is.
And not everyone who uses MTLI uses archiving.
For example, I don't. Also, not one Firefox user (note that this is basically everyone I ever speak to) I know IRL uses it, when nearly all of them use MTLI.
Also, I use the auto install updates option for my brothers' and one of my friends' computers, so I don't always have to be around to ensure they actually get extension updates, which they never, ever would without me there normally (trust me, I left my friend's computer alone for a while, and it ended up with extremely old versions of basically every extension I'd put on there (very few, basically just some of those really "must-have" types that work totally in the background) and versions of Adblock Plus and Tab Mix Plus so old I couldn't even remember them).
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XerBlade wrote:And not everyone who uses MTLI uses archiving.
For example, I don't. Also, not one Firefox user (note that this is basically everyone I ever speak to) I know IRL uses it, when nearly all of them use MTLI.
Also, I use the auto install updates option for my brothers' and one of my friends' computers, so I don't always have to be around to ensure they actually get extension updates, which they never, ever would without me there normally (trust me, I left my friend's computer alone for a while, and it ended up with extremely old versions of basically every extension I'd put on there (very few, basically just some of those really "must-have" types that work totally in the background) and versions of Adblock Plus and Tab Mix Plus so old I couldn't even remember them).
True. But it has so many capabilities that, I think, it's a must have extension. I must be one of the lucky ones because I hardly ever have any troubles with it.
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Cato62 wrote:Lee_Dailey wrote:howdy y'all,
feeping creature-itis ... um, er ... i mean "creeping feature-itis" ... [*grin*]
this ext is a nice, narrowly defined one. i like that. it's also one that will NOT be needed anymore when ff and tb get update notification back. it IS going to happen as the patches have been worked on. slowly, but they are getting there.
anyway, adding anything OTHER than ext/theme update notification is going to get iffy. i would even recommend stripping out the "install updates" command. [*grin*] it interferes with the archiving feature of mtli. having a command to open the EM/TM is nice and actually quite straight forward, but the other stuff is "feeping creature-itis".
take care,
lee
Unfortunately though, Lee, not everyone uses MTLI, no matter how handy it really is.
howdy Cato62,
the mtli ref was intended to be a "for example" on why i would prefer this "update notifier" ext remain VERY lean. i have complaints about mtli cuz it has things in it that simply don't fit the "local install" concept. like the tbird preview pane stuff ... [*grin*]
my comment is still this ... "please, don't bloat!"
take care,
lee
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Lee_Dailey wrote:howdy Cato62,
the mtli ref was intended to be a "for example" on why i would prefer this "update notifier" ext remain VERY lean. i have complaints about mtli cuz it has things in it that simply don't fit the "local install" concept. like the tbird preview pane stuff ... [*grin*]
my comment is still this ... "please, don't bloat!"
take care,
lee
I agree "don't bloat". I'm just a huge fan of MTLI. That's all.
EDIT:
I forgot to mention I'm using Update Notifier, also.
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Update
It would be possible that one can update themes and extensions separately and take over then also separated the updates.
... check all update
... checks extensions updates
... check theme updates
... Install all...
... Install extension updates
...
Reason: I would like not to let Themes update.
... check all update
... checks extensions updates
... check theme updates
... Install all...
... Install extension updates
...
Reason: I would like not to let Themes update.