[Sparkle] Sparkle Prefpane Interface

Thomas Worrall amorya at amorya.freeserve.co.uk
Sun Aug 5 16:20:08 PDT 2007


On 6 Aug 2007, at 00:15, Andy Matuschak wrote:

> 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.

Why don't you emulate Software Update here? Present a list of all  
updates with checkboxes, all ticked by default. If the user wants  
them all, hit Install and away you go. If they want more fine grained  
control, read through the list to see what they want, and uncheck  
those they don't.
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