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(124/212) 336 - "About jEdit" dialog - widget extension for Updater plugin

Summary says it all. I know there's no consensus among the developers. But meanwhile a self-updating program is become a thing that very much users simply expect as an integrated feature.

Possibly a nice integration could be, that the plugin Managers update pane also provides a core update as the very first list item...

Submitted rschwenn - 2010-02-17 22:16:09 Assigned
Priority 5 Labels Plugin manager
Status open Group None
Resolution None

Comments

2011-11-16 23:36:55
ezust

I think it would make more sense for the "About jEdit" dialog to have a way for Updater to add a panel to it.
This way, if updater is installed, it can show a button saying "update available" or a message "you are up to date" depending on updater's settings.
I don't think it makes sense to have jEdit itself delivered through the plugin manager update pane.

2011-11-16 23:36:55
ezust

- **summary**: integrated core updater --> About jEdit dialog extension for Updater plugin
2011-12-18 03:24:24
ezust

- **assigned_to**: nobody --> shlomy
- **summary**: About jEdit dialog extension for Updater plugin --> "About jEdit" dialog - widget extension for Updater plugin
2012-02-29 20:45:45
*anonymous

- **assigned_to**: shlomy --> nobody
2012-03-05 20:13:17
kog13

This is slightly unrelated, but it would also be nice if Updater was provided as a default plugin for Windows and maybe Mac. On Linux the package manager should take care of core updates, but Windows doesn't have one and most Mac users don't use theirs.