Notification: Updates are available for 1 application

[Duncan Innes]

When user clicks a notification for an App Update and the slide-in panel shows on the right of the page, it would make sense to have a link in the Notification to the App which requires an update.

Today I have to navigate to the App listings and then into Installed Apps.  But even *then* I don't have any indication which app requires an update.  I have to click on each of them to find out which App requires an update.  Am I missing something which indicates the app requiring update?

[Duncan Innes]

Today for the first time I know which apps require an update:

(hint: I only have 5 apps installed 🤨)

[Todd Miller]

I was in the exact same situation.  Five updated for five installed apps.  I guess that makes it real easy to decide which apps the updates belong to.  I was watching a video from a person who likes to show new apps (mostly under Docker)..  He was showing some apps had daily updates including some that were multiple times a day.  While I know there are a lot less apps available through TrueNAS, I wonder how they pick what apps to add to their 300+ item catalog.  I'm more of a set it and forget it person so I am already bored with all the updates for our curated apps.  Also, every app I have now has the This app is experimental and may not behave correctly. tag.  Since that wasn't true a couple weeks aga, I wonder if running these updates is enough for the curation process to think the app is now experimental since I didn't do anything but load the curated app and do the updates.  Not sure what the value of that message is when it happens to every app.

[Duncan Innes]

I think the "experimental" tag will stay there until HexOS is fully released.  Once the GA release comes out I would think the 'experimental' tag will drop from the fully supported curated apps.

But that's a good point about update cadence.  Would be nice to see if an app gets updates daily, weekly, monthly or rarely.  Would help decide which apps might be most appropriate for me.

And some method of automatically applying app updates would be nice.  I don't need to be fiddling with the Apps page just to ensure all apps are updated.  My phone allows me to apply updates automatically.  My TV does too.  HexOS should have this ability at some point.

Edited 1 hour ago by Duncan Innes