>Matthew Paul Thomas said: >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.
Your explanation makes no sense, Matthew. The power-cog is where users go to shutdown/restart their computer. If a RESTART is needed, this is the perfect place to advertise it. The user does not know that it needs to update. The user knows a RESTART is needed, for whatever reason. As far as the user is concerned, the update process is over/done. Users that update in the background (like my parents) don't understand the process. The only thing they understand was that when it was red (and red lettering appears in the Power-Cog, you restart. They never restart their computer anymore since I moved them to 14.04. Which means they aren't getting kernel updates. Your rationalization that everything Update-Related be kept away from the Power-Cog is misguided and flawed because the update is DONE, it's been set. The only step that remains is to perform a procedure that the user needs to go to the Power-Cog to accomplish. That is, the user is not UPDATING, they are RESTARTING. The decision to change the red icon was a poor choice and per your explanation the logic surrounding the decision is not in accordance with good design principle nor user-use patterns. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346355 Title: 14.04 power-cog does not turn red when restart is needed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/1346355/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
