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QupZilla / qupzilla

Cross-platform Qt web browser
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Software update checker and downloader #1882

Open GreenLunar opened 8 years ago

GreenLunar commented 8 years ago

Add an auto update checker and a menu item under menu About to check-on-demand for updates.

Once Qupzilla detects an update, it would prompt user to go to Qupzilla homepage, similarly to SMPlayer.

For Windows users, Qupzilla can auto-download and auto-install Qupzilla, but I am not in favor of this somewhat intrusive action.

jamesqf commented 8 years ago

Please no, or at least give the user an option to turn it off. I don't want updates breaking things or making my (customized) user interfaces unusable - things which have happened with updates of other software.

kigerpunk commented 8 years ago

This is what package managers are for. I'd only recommend including this in the Windows builds (if possible).

GreenLunar commented 8 years ago

I'd only recommend including this in the Windows builds

On any non-Linux platform that is not shipped not have a package manager (i.e. Mac OS X and Windows).

NootanR commented 8 years ago

Sir my qupzilla is not running fine On Mar 14, 2016 11:53 PM, "GreenLunar" notifications@github.com wrote:

I'd only recommend including this in the Windows builds

On any non-Linux platform that is not shipped not have a package manager (i.e. Mac OS X and Windows).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/issues/1882#issuecomment-196454275.

kigerpunk commented 8 years ago

Aren't there a couple of package managers for OS X (or, for that matter, Windows)? If so, maybe just have a special standalone version which updates itself.

nowrep commented 8 years ago

Actually I've been thinking about completely remove the update check. Because as it is now, it just shows notification that there is a new version but user must manually go to QupZilla website and download it. Another problem is that this really works only for Windows. On Linux it depends on what distribution is user using, so the new version may not be available right after the release or even not at all.

GreenLunar commented 8 years ago

Perhaps QupZilla (Windows) should have a separate binary file for update check.

nowrep commented 8 years ago

Yes, that would be better. It could also handle the complete update process. But I won't do it, so patches welcome :)