sdsykes/Change-Space — Issue #4: Suggestion: Sparkle framework
Author: Dachaz
Created: 2011-10-13 23:33:26+00:00
State: open

Let me make this post slightly longer and quite "off topic": I'm not sure if you have any ambition and/or spare time to shape this up to a full software product; but I personally find it extremely useful, and I would like it to see it grow and being used by lots of Lion-annoyed Mac users. So, I have thus far presented it to our local Mac community (MacSerbia) but it would be rather cool to see it on MacUpdate and others (honestly, I bumped onto it by looking up ways to make something similar myself). But to get there, it needs some user-friendliness fine-tuning. At the moment, I've got only a bit of spare time, so I'll only provide suggestions, but should I grab some more spare time, I'll try to provide fixes myself (or not, if you don't want me to).

Sparkle framework is ridiculously easy to implement (at least in native ObjC projects, I have no experience in MacRuby mashups) yet it is de-facto standard for updates. When I saw that you rolled out an update, I instantly looked for the famous "Check for updates" menu item, yet it wasn't there.
This, obviously, isn't a deal-breaking feature, but if you have ambitions of rounding this up and fully Mac-like releasing it, I would strongly suggest including Sparkle.