On Dec 16, 2014 12:37 PM, "Matthew Miller" mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
When a release is completely EOL, would it be possible to have a notification that is persistant in some way? Not necessarily in the shell chrome (too much?), but maybe whenever you go to Software. Or maybe "All Settings" -- could the Details icon change to show an
alert,
or gain a visual flag in some way?
I'm not a huge fan of this. It reminds me greatly of the notifications that e.g. McAfee continuously pops up on Windows when your virus definitions are out of date. Not without good reason (and similar reasons), but really really annoying. Some people will want to stick with an EOL release for whatever reason and constantly slapping them with an Alert warning is pointless.
I definitely I don't think there should be a repeating popup. Nothing that slaps anyone, but something that gets lit up when you're looking at a relevant part of the UI.
-- Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org Fedora Project Leader --
It would be logical to me that a user attempting to check for updates on an EOL release would get an EOL warning. Not just looking at Software, or logging into GNOME, but *every time* they explicitly set out to get updates.
--Pete