jahorton
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3 years ago Design idea:
For each language with a resource (keyboard OR model) that needs updating, display an icon indicating this to the left of the drill-down '>' symbol.
- Users may then click this to update only those resources.
The "big green button" would then say something like "Update all
If the user drills down to that language's sub-menu, keep the design consistent and replicate it here as well.
- This allows the user to investigate and find exactly what's being updated, should they truly care.
- And again when it comes to the "Dictionary" entry & drill-down.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is a bit related to #199 and will likely be most easily addressed around the same time.
Currently, whenever the app notifies users that updates for their keyboards and/or lexical models are available, we present them, along with minimum feedback, with this fellow (the 'green' bit below):
The initial notification simply says "Updates Available"; the one seen above is, sadly, the most informative part of the process. The app (currently) says nothing of which resources need updating, etc. Just that something needs updating.
Be sure to refer to #3372; its changes were explicitly designed with enhancements like this in mind.
Describe the solution you'd like
... the UI aspects of this will certainly need some design work. We'll at least want something that at least gives the names of the keyboards & lexical models to be updated. Possibly a popup-alert or something?
Extra design work will likely be needed for joint consideration with #199, especially if we make moves to support a background-notification style of update. Triggering an update from outside of the app will likely have extra constraints to be considered, though there's a good chance such "triggers" could link back into the app for whatever our preferred update-UI might be.