Sorry, but this change was deliberate. A red icon may have worked for
you, but that does not mean it worked for most or even many people.
The red icon dates from the era when the rightmost menu was a "device
menu", trying to cover everything from attached printers to external
displays to software updates to screen locking, which was absurd.
Nowadays everything to do with software updates is integrated into
Software Updater, including the restart notification. It will sometimes
be true that the alert appears when it's not a good time to restart; but
you can leave it open (even minimized) until you're ready.
** Changed in: indicator-session
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346355
Title:
14.04 power-cog does not turn red when restart is needed
Status in The Session Menu:
Invalid
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
In ubuntu 12.04 the power-cog turned red when a reboot/restart was
needed. This was a helpful feature because it informed users that they
needed to restart the computer. But this helpful indicator is gone in
14.04 and it has resulted in me never remembering to restart my
computer because there is no helpful feedback from ubuntu that a
restart is needed.
In 14.04, I will perform an update and a popup tells me a Restart is
needed but I usually select to restart-later because I am in the
middle of working. By the the time I am done working I have forgotten
that a restart is needed. Later when I am working again a popup occurs
informing me that a restart is needed (but again I am in the middle of
working so I don't restart). Bottom line: when the power-cog turned
red, it reminded me that I needed to restart the computer. When I
finished my work I look up and see the red power-cog and "Oh yeah, I
need to restart. Now is a good time." In 14.04 this doesn't happen.
Instead I'm perpetually bugged by a popup (which is useless because
it's never a good time to restart when it pops up). The red power-cog
was a much BETTER design choice.
The removal of the power-cog turning red has negatively affected the
management of ubuntu updates and it should be fixed so that it behaves
like 12.04.
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