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diff --git a/extensions/README b/extensions/README index c7f6afa4d5bb..aefd5b8852b2 100644 --- a/extensions/README +++ b/extensions/README @@ -1 +1,14 @@ -Browser plugin, activex control, scanner bits. +Browser plugin, activex control, scanner bits. Online update. + +== Application online update checking == + +When we start LO, first InitUpdateCheckJobThread is created, via +UpdateCheckJob::execute() (from extensions/source/update/check/updatecheckjob.cxx), +as a reaction to a "onFirstVisibleTask" event. It waits 25 seconds (so that it +does not interfere with the startup itself), and then calls +UpdateCheck::initialize() (from extensions/source/update/check/updatecheck.cxx). + +This creates one more thread, UpdateCheckThread, that regularly checks whether +we have reached the time when we should ask for the update. If yes, asks for +that, and shows the download button in the menu (if the new update is +available). |