A Suggestion about Calibre Update Notification
I read many post/request about update notification and also read requests about automatic updating. And I know why it should NOT be added. Who's gonna pay for around 80TB/month bandwidth.
But I've three suggestions today. And a Bug report.
First, calibre has two types of Updates (if I'm not wrong, plz correct me if i'm wrong); Major (e.g.: 0.1.0, or 0.2.0 etc) and Minor (e.g.: 0.1.1, 0.1.2....) {I'm waiting for SUPER MAJOR Update 1.0.0 Lolz}. Is it possible to add these options in preference-
Update Notification options-
(radio button) Notify me only about Major Updates
(radio button) Do Not Notify Me about any Updates
(radio button) Notify me about all updates
{Please click apply button on the top left corner of this window to save ur preferences}
Now, Bug report:
In my calibre "Show notification when calibre update is available" is not checked (see attachment plz) but still I'm getting update notification (plz see attachment)
Second, As I said, I read many post about automatic update and the answer was "If you are happy with how calibre works turn off the update notification (http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#why-doesn-t-app-have-an-automatic-update)".
that's ok, but i think there should be one more line after this, like-"Please click on the Preferences button in calibre main iterface, thn click on Behaviour button under the Interface category, thn uncheck the "Show notification when calibre update is available" OR implement my first suggestion. Guys, not everyone is a computer geek, and that's why user guide should contain more information (I searched the word "update" in the user guide and there was only one hit...). Look, turning off update notification is really important for those people who panic when they see a "red line" under the calibre interface. Here comes my third suggestion-
I think changing the color of "update found" (changing it from RED to Blue/Green, same as notified version number) will help some people from being panicked. Cause we usually think red means "Error". Changing it to green will have a friendly meaning "you have green light to update"..!!!
I believe if u (Honorable Mr. Kovid G.) change the "update found" color to a soft color (best option Black), people will reduce requesting for automatic update option.
Calibre rockz in every ways. thanks kovid & thanks to everyone who is working for calibre.
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