"check for updates" menu option
I'd like to request a "check for updates" menu option. On both of my machines today I had to wait at least 10 minutes before Logos decided to go check if there was an update - the very thing I was waiting for. The help menu or main menu are the normal places.
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You can type "Update Now" in the command bar to force it to check for updates immediately.
Director of Engineering for Enterprise and Operations
It would still be great (and more Mac like) to have "check for updates" as a menu option. Most Mac programs have it as a menu or as a setting in preference to check daily, weekly or every time I open it.
Logos will check every time you open the program for any updates.Blessings
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the only reason why its not in apple's mail program is because all apple software is updated through the apple menu at the top left of the screen, where you can manually search for updates, but yes that is also automatic in searching every so often for new updates.
But, most non-apple software does have a "search for update" option somewhere in its menu options, often under the help menu.
Observation: Apple Menu has "Software Update..." (with corresponding System Preference => frequency). Many Apple programs do not have update now (e.g. Safari, Preview, Pages, Numbers, Mail, Keynote, iCal, Grab, Address Book). Noticed iTunes has menu items "Check for Updates..." and "Check for Available Downloads..."; also iLife suite has "Check for Updates..."
Cross platform Firefox help menu has "Check for Updates..." - same as Microsoft Word 2008 and OpenOffice.
Keep Smiling [:)]
Even if it is firmly established to be common, I suspect it'd be a fairly low-priority task at this point, for two reasons:
1) It's going to be used infrequently. We have automatic updates, which is the most important portion of that feature, even for apps that have the menu item.
2) We already have a mechanism to manually check for updates, even if it isn't easily discoverable.
Director of Engineering for Enterprise and Operations
Fair enough, let's work with what's there. Is there a reason that there was a 10 minute delay on both of my Macs before it registered the update? Perhaps this can be fixed to be seconds after launch, not minutes.
Second, the manual mechanism isn't discoverable at all. Searching for "updates" in the help menu gives info on the automatic update, and how to turn it off. I searched for "manual update" as well and still nothing. Perhaps the manual mechanism can at least be made discoverable for someone like me who does actually take the time to look in the help files.
Again, as lovely as it would be to have the ability to provide everything that each user wants, the reality is that our capacity is limited, and saying "yes" to this would mean saying "no" to other things that have a larger impact on a greater number of users. Enhancements to the update mechanism have to take a back seat, for now.
David Mitchell
Development Lead
Faithlife
Yes I understand that. I'm not asking it to become top priority. Should I place this elsewhere on the forum or via email, as now I guess I'm registering what seems to be a bug (a lag in the update time) and a hole in the help files?