From fa392c42a8e6e6eb5d782159dd5d7d29570ad683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 16:57:41 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] User manual updates --- manual/faq.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- manual/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/manual/faq.rst b/manual/faq.rst index 22d20e224b..8dd3dd3379 100644 --- a/manual/faq.rst +++ b/manual/faq.rst @@ -928,10 +928,25 @@ Why doesn't |app| have an automatic update? For many reasons: - * *There is no need to update every week*. If you are happy with how |app| works turn off the update notification and be on your merry way. Check back to see if you want to update once a year or so. - * Pre downloading the updates for all users in the background would require about 80TB of bandwidth *every week*. That costs thousands of dollars a month. And |app| is currently growing at 300,000 new users every month. - * If I implement a dialog that downloads the update and launches it, instead of going to the website as it does now, that would save the most ardent |app| updater, *at most five clicks a week*. There are far higher priority things to do in |app| development. - * If you really, really hate downloading |app| every week but still want to be up to the latest, I encourage you to run from source, which makes updating trivial. Instructions are :ref:`available here `. + * *There is no need to update every week*. If you are happy with how |app| + works turn off the update notification and be on your merry way. Check back + to see if you want to update once a year or so. There is a check box to + turn off the update notification, on the update notification itself. + + * |app| downloads currently use `about 100TB of bandwidth a month + `_. Implementing automatic + updates would greatly increase that and end up costing thousands of dollars + a month, which someone has to pay. And |app| is currently growing at `half + a million new installs a month `_. + + * If I implement a dialog that downloads the update and launches it, instead + of going to the website as it does now, that would save the most ardent + |app| updater, *at most five clicks a week*. There are far higher priority + things to do in |app| development. + + * If you really, really hate downloading |app| every week but still want to + be up to the latest, I encourage you to run from source, which makes + updating trivial. Instructions are :ref:`available here `. How is |app| licensed? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/manual/index.rst b/manual/index.rst index fa19761b1b..3d057ec740 100755 --- a/manual/index.rst +++ b/manual/index.rst @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Sections .. REMOVE_IN_PDF + The main |app| user interface ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^