[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642044: Bug#642044: Suggests reboot when restarting nm-applet would suffice

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:43:02PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 19.09.2011 12:31, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> >> nm-applet worked perfectly, without requiring a reboot.
> >>
> >> Please consider adding a mechanism to support rebootless upgrades.
> > 
> > This is the best that can be done imho. 
> 
> Let me rephrase that: It's better then doing nothing and expecting the average
> user to read the changelog and understand why nm-applet stopped working, and to
> kill and restart nm-applet themselves. For plasma-widget-networkmanagement (the
> KDE frontend) it is even more complicated and what triggered the addition of
> this notification [1].

I certainly agree that this seems better than doing nothing. :)

> So, I'm willing to review patches which implement the automatic reloading for
> both nm-applet and pnm in a clean way but I won't work on that myself.

Fair enough.

> The alternative would be, as said, if update-notifier supported a
> restart-your-session notification, which could be more generally useful.
> An effort would probably be better spent there.

For me, "restart your session" and "restart your system" seem equally
painful; either way I lose my state.  I'd love to see as many programs
as possible supporting self-restart, the way Firefox does (restart on
upgrade, preserve your session); that seems even easier for programs
which have no state, like nm-applet.

I'll look into what it would take to produce a sensible patch.

- Josh Triplett