Am 21.01.2017 um 23:56 schrieb Terry Brown:
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 19:08:42 +0000 C R <cajhne@...400...> wrote:
We do have pre-release versions of Inkscape compiled and ready to test before the release. This is a time when users can peek over the wall, and have a say in what gets tossed over.
How do users know about these? I lurk on inkscape-devel and inkscape-user, so that's how I know.
- Currently: via website news, and theoretically via social media, but this is often neglected (and possibly via news articles on software websites - for one of the pre-releases (pre3 or pre4?), I've actually contacted a news site, and it got posted - but as we got to pre5, I thought they might not find that too interesting any more, the numbers got a bit high for betas).
Should Inkscape check for updates and show pop-ups like some other apps?
"New update is available"
and
" New beta is available
It would really help Inkscape if you'd test it "
realizing that that requires more code itself, an HTTP GET to find new updates, then the pop-up and instructions on how to proceed (probably just a hyperlink in the pop-up to the appropriate page on the Inkscape website).
Cheers -Terry
- A similar idea has been around for long (including all kinds of news about the project + asking for donations, too), but up to now I don't think anyone has started to implement it.
Regards, Maren
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