RFC: phone home

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 13:58 -0700, Richard DePas wrote:
>         There are obvious privacy issues with this and lots of people
>         absolutely
>         hate this idea so the only way this would be even remotely
>         acceptable is an opt-in.
>         
> 
> 
> Could this be tied into a "Automatically Check for Updates" feature?
> That would basically need to phone home with current version and
> platform.

That's the feature I intend to (ab-)use to implement the phone home.
But there's a huge difference - very very few people will find "check
for updates" under Help and then actually click it. That's why I am
considering the opt-in when (first) running Subsurface (or a new
version).

/D