Hyper: About pane should check for updates and display a nice tick

[rauchg]

When it's loaded, it should check against https://hyperterm-updates.now.sh/api/versions and notify the user if it's the latest version, every time, as soon as it opens.

This is similar to how Chrome does it.

[rauchg]

[rauchg]

and link to the release notes of the current and update (if any)

[albinekb]

To make this happen we to ditch the macOS-native about window and make our own BrowserWindow ✅
http://electron.atom.io/docs/api/menu/#standard-menu-item-actions

Question is, maybe it's nicer to open a new tab to about:hyperterm than a separate window? Feels more terminal-like

[rauchg]

@albinekb that sounds like a great idea! Let's make sure our regexp supports about: uri

[rauchg]

@CodeTheory maybe let's adapt the mock for that?

[timothyis]

@rauchg @albinekb I'm ready to mock this up. So to be clear, we want a new tab and not a popup?

[flybayer]

Something to keep in mind for this. Linux & Windows currently use a different About window than OSX. Their about menu is defined in menu.js under the help menu.

Hopefully with this feature we can use the same about menu everywhere :ok_hand:

[erasmuswill]

Hi guys. I'm quite new to Electron but happy to jump in and help. Has any progress been made on this thread since the last post?