*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1180860 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180860
You identify two issues. First, "popping up a window does NOT provide a
persistent state of notice". That's true in that you can dismiss the
dialog without restarting. But if you do, per spec, it will come back a
day later, just as it would if you hadn't installed the updates at all.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#restart>
Second, that the current design "breaks the logical connection and
Unity-design of displaying system related events in the Upper-Right
corner of the panel". But there is no such connection or design. And
even if there was, that would not be an excuse for shipping designs that
don't work.
In particular, there is no evidence that "The power-cog turning red
alerts the user's attention to the event" for a reasonable proportion of
users. On the contrary, when use testing was done on systems that
happened to need system updates, nobody noticed the updates icon in the
panel. That's the reason we changed the notification of updates
available from an indicator icon to a dialog in 2009. It's implausible
that the appearance of a new icon would fail to notify people that
updates were available, but that changing the color of an existing
indicator icon -- even less of a change -- would succeed in notifying
people that their system needed restarting.
It did use to be the case that the power menu title went red when
updates required a restart, and that the menu contained an item "Restart
to Complete Updates". But there was never any evidence that that worked,
either, and it was removed in 2012 along with printers and webcams and
other stuff that didn't make sense in that menu.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeviceMenuAndUserMenu>
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1180860
Session (gear) indicator not changing to red when restart required
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1508461
Title:
Power-Cog should turn red when restart is need to complete updates
Status in Ubuntu UX:
New
Status in indicator-session package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
To inform the user that his/her action is needed to accomplish some
task relating to the Operating System (as opposed to an application),
the Power-Cog should turn red and a red highlight should color the
entry in the menu that requires action.
Restarting the OS to complete the installation of updates is such an
event. The power-cog turning red alerts the user's attention to the
event. And when the user clicks the red Power-Cog icon, an entry
should exist that reads: "restart to complete updates"
The current method of popping up a window does NOT provide a
persistent state of notice and often results in the user forgetting to
restart when an opportune time exists to do such a thing. It also
breaks the logical connection and Unity-design of displaying system
related events in the Upper-Right corner of the top-panel. "Restart"
and "Shutdown" are items in the power-cog menu and this is the
intuitive place for users to take action on such an event.
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