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rpwoodbu / mosh-chrome

Mosh for Chrome
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Improve UX for updating the app #93

Closed rpwoodbu closed 7 years ago

rpwoodbu commented 9 years ago

When a new update is available, the app presents a low-priority desktop notification, as well as a yellow "butter bar" at the top of the new session dialog, suggesting that the user close all Mosh windows to get the new update. But it can take a very long time after that for the app actually to be updated.

I have seen some apps present a button to force an update immediately, which closes the app and restarts it at the new version. That would be a nice addition. The button should be careful, though, not to close any Mosh sessions that may be open, but to ask the user to do so first.

I have also noticed that the Secure Shell app superimposes an update notification in the top-right of the terminal window. That may be worth considering as well.

rpwoodbu commented 8 years ago

I've observed that it takes a really long time for the app to update on its own, even after it is closed. This is a very bad UX. I should detect when all sessions are closed, and automatically call chrome.runtime.reload(); no need to have the user take an action beyond just closing the sessions.

rpwoodbu commented 7 years ago

This doesn't seem to work. I still have to wait a long time for updates to take effect.