mintUpdate 2.0 released in Romeo!

[clem]

Hi,

mintUpdate 2.0 was released in Romeo. The latest version of the popular mint update manager comes packed with new features.

Changes:

- Memory Usage Improvements: mintUpdate used to take between 80MB and 100MB... it now takes between 6MB and 10MB.
- New Information window and quick access to logs. Right click mintUpdate in the system tray and select "Information" to see the content of the log, the process ID..etc.
- Larger configuration range for automatic refresh: Users could select a frequency of up to an hour in mintUpdate 1.9, they can now select a frequency of up to a year in mintUpdate 2.0.
- Better multi-session handling. If mintUpdate is already running in another session you don't get an error message anymore, mintUpdate simply exits gracefully.

How to install it:

- Make sure to have the Romeo repository in your sources.list
- Right click mintUpdate and select Quit.
- Upgrade to the newest mintupdate (apt update; apt install mintupdate)
- Launch mintUpdate from mintMenu

Translations:

mintUpdate 2.0 supports unicode and special characters. We want it to support as many languages as possible, so if you happen to speak anything else than English, please help us translate it.

Read this thread and participate in the translation effort: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8936

Bugs and feedback:

This is going to be part of Elyssa, and a major component of the desktop so don't hesitate to report bugs or feedback by replying to this thread.

Status:

No additional work is planned on mintUpdate for Elyssa.

Clem.

[rootkowski]

I have upgraded mint update and on my system it takes only 140 kb! That's great. Really nice job Clem!

Edit:
Well after some time the memory usage went up to 5.8 MB. Still nice

[foggytown]

Works great on KDE b44.

One small thing though. Is it possible to make the icon background transparent? The white background looks out of place in the semi-transparent KDE panel.

[clem]

That's the reason why KDE B44 doesn't "dress" GTK apps with the KDE theme.. it's either that or the transparent mintupdate, seems to be a compatibility problem between gtk.statusicon and qt-gtk.

Clem

[LunkHead]

Another fine job! Thanks!!!

Kris

[foggytown]

That's the reason why KDE B44 doesn't "dress" GTK apps with the KDE theme.. it's either that or the transparent mintupdate, seems to be a compatibility problem between gtk.statusicon and qt-gtk.

Thanks for the insight, Clem. I switched the setting back to the default and it is better.

[Kynan]

Thanks Clem, i have installed it and it is working very nicely, as rootkowski said it only requires about 150kb's on my computer to begin with and that is extremely nice! i haven't had it on long enough to see it go up but i will see.

maybe a little bit off topic but...
i'm wondering why every ~12 seconds i have some network usage where i send a tiny amount of information out? is the network manager applet simply checking with the router that it still has a connection? or is it a process related to mint? or something else, I have no idea if this has always been like it is, nor do i really mind since it is so tiny, just curious i guess.



thanks Kynan.

[orduek]

edited (my mistake).
Great Job and Thanx again for a great OS.

[MagnusB]

Great work! Though I have one issue. Since I use a wireless connection, I am not connected the minute I boot, or mintUpdate starts, so I was wondering if it were possible to add a delay so that it did not refresh at start, but wait a few minutes so that I might be able to connect to the AP first? That way I do not have to refresh it manually myself just because it is not able to connect to the internet the first time..

[Jwednesday]

I totally agree with the upgrade tool. I have convinced 2 people to use LinuxMint as a dual boot on their Windoze computers. The reason I chose to install Linux Mint was that it works. I have instructed both parties as to how to upgrade using the konsole under the KDE version using apt-get. The reason why I chose Linux Mint was that they can still access their files under Windows and I was able to install ies4linux (IE) so that they could keep their favorites and saved sites. I NEED an upgrade tool so that I can save face in convincing them that Linux is just as good or better. I installed Cassandra because I could do so on older machines with a CD and they seem to both enjoy the KDE desktop. So, please please please bring out the UPGRADE tool.
Jim - jwednesday@gmail.com

[Kynan]

I totally agree with the upgrade tool. I have convinced 2 people to use LinuxMint as a dual boot on their Windoze computers. The reason I chose to install Linux Mint was that it works. I have instructed both parties as to how to upgrade using the konsole under the KDE version using apt-get. The reason why I chose Linux Mint was that they can still access their files under Windows and I was able to install ies4linux (IE) so that they could keep their favorites and saved sites. I NEED an upgrade tool so that I can save face in convincing them that Linux is just as good or better. I installed Cassandra because I could do so on older machines with a CD and they seem to both enjoy the KDE desktop. So, please please please bring out the UPGRADE tool.
Jim - jwednesday@gmail.com

Just thinking, if they wanted to be microsoft free and use firefox... when i used to run windows when i installed firefox on windows it offered to fetch all the IE favourites and implement them in firefox as bookmarks. And I'm pretty sure you can then export the bookmarks to a file and then either save it to a disc or if the windows harddrive is mounted in linux you can then open up firefox in linux and import them.

[Jwednesday]

yes, I exported the sites and favorites and it worked. I had someone recently that ran into a IE only site so that is the reason for ies4linux. Now, I am wondering where the miniKDE version of the new release might be so I can Update?

[klaeje]

I'm running mintupdate (1.7 i think) with cassandra.
is mintupdate 2.0 after testing coming out in the daryna repo's or not. read easy to install!
Is it for my safe to use 2.0 (after changing my repo list)?
or do i have to wait, what is the best?
I have an old comp so the less memory loss the better!
Thx

[clem]

Romeo is there for testing purposes only, it's the unstable branch of Linux Mint. Once stable mintUpdate 2.0 should go in Elyssa and possibly also in Daryna.

Clem

[moddedcomputers]

So exactly what is "Romero"?
I'm running Daryna with XFCE 4.4 beta 008.
Desktop enhancement?
Can I install Romero in or over my current mint?
I really like my Mint. I was "Distro Hopping" until I found Mint.

Thank You
~Mike~

[welkiner]

Clem,

After updating MintUpdate to 2.0, MintUpdate no longer started automatically after log in.
I inserted "gksu" and a space in front of the MintUpdate command line in sessions.
Now everything appears to be working normally.
Was this the correct fix?
Has anyone else had this problem?

wb

[Kynan]

So exactly what is "Romero"?
I'm running Daryna with XFCE 4.4 beta 008.
Desktop enhancement?
Can I install Romero in or over my current mint?
I really like my Mint. I was "Distro Hopping" until I found Mint.

Thank You
~Mike~

A repository is a link to a place where you can get software, so by adding the romeo repository it enables you to download the beta software, but this is only reccomended for testing.

If you want to add it the code way http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=1206
or open up synaptic > settings > repositories
then click "new"
then enter the repository.
TYPE: deb
URL: http://www.linuxmint.com/repository
DISTRO: romeo
SECTION: daryna
after this is done "ok" then make sure you cilck "reload"

edit: apparently romeo/ no longer works, so disregard the code way mentioned above.

[Kynan]

Clem,

After updating MintUpdate to 2.0, MintUpdate no longer started automatically after log in.
I inserted "gksu" and a space in front of the MintUpdate command line in sessions.
Now everything appears to be working normally.
Was this the correct fix?
Has anyone else had this problem?

wb

No, mine still starts up automatically fine..
just wondering by adding gksu does that mean that it will ask you for a password each time you log in?

[BakUp]

So exactly what is "Romero"?

Hi, and welcome to the Mint forums microcomputers !

romeo is just a repository, not a new release of Mint.


Edit: romeo spelling

[Kynan]

So exactly what is "Romero"?

Hi, and welcome to the Mint forums microcomputers !

Romero is just a repository, not a new release of Mint.

i just noticed the typo we seem to be replicating it's called romeo not romero