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ChimeraOS / frzr

A deployment and automatic update mechanism for operating systems
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Notifiy users of new gamer os releases via a steam pop-up #16

Closed ChojinDSL closed 2 years ago

ChojinDSL commented 4 years ago

Some events create a pop-up in steam big picture mode. Would it be possible to use that functionality to inform the user that a new gamer os release is ready?

sharkwouter commented 4 years ago

I like this idea and I think it is possible, the hard part is figuring out how to implement it. I think we can make steam show that there is an update in about the same way we show the update is complete, but the hard part here is that the user will get the option to restart and update the system, which we currently do not support.

@alkazar what do you think? Should we make frzr able to update the system on shutdown instead of while running? I think that would probably be the cleanest solution, since SteamOS updates in the same way.

alkazar commented 4 years ago

When the release is downloaded we already notify the user. We cannot create Steam popups with custom messages.

If you want to be notified when on new releases you can become a member of the gamer-os group on Steam.

I dont want to make people wait for updates on shutdown, although we could introduce some UI that appears if an update download is in progress and ask if users want to complete it before shutting down. I question the value of that though.

I think this problem should be smoothed over now that we resume partial downloads.

sharkwouter commented 4 years ago

Good points. Can you leave this open and assign it to me? I may not be able to look into this very soon, but I am interested in trying to figure out which commands Steam uses when you try to make it update the system and if I can make a notification appear that there is a new update. Maybe we can make use of it at some point in the future and make it execute a specific script, like showing the changelog.

ChojinDSL commented 4 years ago

If it's not possible to create a steam pop-up with a custom message. What about using steam-buddy as a workaround? e.g. When you log in to steambuddy that there is a little message there that a update has been downloaded and is waiting for a reboot to apply?

alkazar commented 4 years ago

That could work. I have been thinking about using Steam Buddy to manage updates, maybe even allowing you to rollback as well.

sharkwouter commented 2 years ago

I haven't managed to figure this out so far and I won't be working on this anytime soon, so I'm unassigning myself.

alkazar commented 2 years ago

Big Picture is on the way out, so closing in favour of https://github.com/ChimeraOS/chimeraos/issues/338