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Kleopatra: Change result message of update check
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Running "Check for updates" in Gpg4win (with the changes made for T7666: Kleopatra: Rework versioning) I get a window with title

Up to date - Kleopatra

and text

No update found in the available version database.

I think the text is confusing. "No update found" reads a bit like an error and "version database" is techno-babble for normal users. I propose to change the text to something like

Your version is up to date.

Ideally, we'd say something like

Gpg4win is up to date.

but I don't think Kleopatra knows the distribution name "Gpg4win". (This could be changed.)

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• ikloecker created this task.Fri, May 30, 11:30 AM
• ikloecker mentioned this in T7656: Kleopatra: Wrong update suggestion from 5.0.0 to 4.4.0.
• ikloecker added projects: kleopatra, gpd5x, Windows.Fri, May 30, 11:33 AM

Tagging with Windows because the update check is a NOP except on Windows.

• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Fri, May 30, 5:32 PM

So, what shall we do with vanilla kleopatra, or GPD or VSD? It will be easy to record current versions number in swdb.lst

• werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Fri, May 30, 5:32 PM
• ikloecker added a comment.Fri, May 30, 6:01 PM

Yes, for GPD and VSD there probably should be version numbers in swdb.lst if the update check should actually be active in those distributions. I think for VSD the update check is usually deactivated because a) it accesses the public internet which some customers don't want and b) the software is usually not installed by the users themselves so that the update check doesn't make much sense.

Regarding vanilla kleopatra, there's no vanilla kleopatra on Windows (yet). Once KDE builds Kleopatra for Windows and we (KDE) want an update check then it should use a general KDE-backed update check. I'm not aware of a general mechanism used by all apps that are built by KDE on Windows.

Regarding the Kleopatra AppImage, isn't there some AppImage mechanism for updating? I think that's where OpenPGP-signing of AppImages becomes important.