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Prompts me to update to a version not available with Flatpak #10

Open wjt opened 4 years ago

wjt commented 4 years ago

I have the following version of this Flatpak installed:

wjt@camille:~$ flatpak info org.learningequality.Kolibri                                                                            

Kolibri - Offline education technology platform

          ID: org.learningequality.Kolibri
         Ref: app/org.learningequality.Kolibri/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 1.0
     License: MIT
      Origin: flathub
  Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
   Installed: 359,0 MB
     Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.36
         Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.36

      Commit: 15c8974f1a788940a296d761afbb43d164f3260e1613b59075eba6efa52997be
      Parent: f4604ad83d34eff6bd8de93514eb7d9ebae8331ec621e8a1f3a7dd9a758e538b
     Subject: Update kolibri-installer-gnome (21b1a3ef)
        Date: 2020-05-30 05:03:55 +0000

(Note Version: 1.0 which I think applies to the kolibri-installer-gnome version number – the version of Kolibri itself is Kolibri 0.13.3a0.dev0+git.62.g5d05c61b.)

Whenever I start the app and log in (grr), I get the following prompt:

Capture d’écran de 2020-07-03 10-18-45

As a user of the Flatpak, I can't take action based on this notification. At a minimum, the Flatpak package should disable Kolibri's update check.

Ideally, kolibri-installer-gnome would detect that it is within a Flatpak and use the Flatpak UpdateMonitor API to detect when an update is available and prompt the user to apply the update and restart the app.

erikos commented 4 years ago

Thanks Will for filing. I was running into that too. Your suggestion using Flatpak UpdateMonitor API to monitor when updates are available sounds great.

wjt commented 4 years ago

@dylanmccall am I right in thinking that there was a change in this area somewhere?

dylanmccall commented 4 years ago

There has not been, no. There's some added friction around this because update notifications are used for other useful things, as well. So for the application these are generic pingbacks from the telemetry server. And we don't want to disable those. This could work better as a change in Kolibri's telemetry server, actually. It might be able to choose not to send these particular notifications to this particular client.