Improve update banner

Duplicates

• I have searched the existing issues

Latest version

• I have tested the latest version

Current behavior 😯

• it’s stuck to the bottom of the list
• there’s a horizontal scrollbar on the overview. (Not sure if related to the banner)
• it shows up on https://master--toolpad.mui.com/

Expected behavior 🤔

• it’s positioned fixed, perhaps it even makes sense to use a Snackbar?
• no horizontal scrollbar
• it shouldn’t show up on https://master--toolpad.mui.com/
  • should it appear every time a new version comes out? or once dismissed, it’s dismissed forever until you upgrade?

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[Janpot]

I don’t feel like this message is important enough to try to capture all attention. All that will happen is users clicking it away faster to get it out of the way, reducing the chance of them upgrading. You rather want them to keep it around as a reminder for themselves. I would consider

• to only show it on the overview page.
• to also show an “update available” label next to the version in the help menu After they’ve dismissed, I’d also put a short “update available” link somewhere on the overview page that opens update instructions.

[oliviertassinari]

💯 to remove this banner. It feels at least x3 too distracting compared to the value it brings. For example, developers using the tool can’t act on it, only the developer who provisioned the tool can act on it.

We could do a benchmark of how other self-hosted projects handle updates notification and see what feels super great, starting from https://www.notion.so/mui-org/Toolpad-Self-host-deployment-03a9bb1548a04e109078143ae04544ce.

How are developers updating docker dependencies in general? If it works like renovate/yarn outdated then we might only need a very small mention close to where we display the version: