>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 Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/1346355/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
