[Sparkle] Sparkle Prefpane Interface

Andy Matuschak andy at andymatuschak.org
Sun Aug 5 16:15:14 PDT 2007


> The mac way would be to never auto-update, unless the user has
> explicitly asked for that, The default should be to ask before
> updating anything.

Really? All that control seems more the Linux way to me. I mean, I  
wouldn't do all this without asking. I'd probably start by asking  
something like "hey, do you want to just update everything  
automatically?" at the start, and go from there. Even if there's  
complexity, it needs to be simple for users who want simplicity. Heck,  
I'm a developer, but I still just want it to go do its thing and not  
bug me.

I guess it does make sense not to update if you're in the middle of  
something critical. Maybe I've just gotten lucky in not using apps  
that have broken updates.

How do the rest of you feel about this? Is so much control really  
necessary? I recognize this is kind of a biased sample since we're all  
developers here, but I might as well ask.

- Andy Matuschak


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