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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the report.

The previous behavior was rather eccentric. Security updates that
require restart aren't inherently more important than security updates
that don't. So it wouldn't make sense for us to highlight any menu when
available security updates happen to require a restart, but not when
they don't.

So how about if we highlighted a menu when *any* security updates were
available? Well we used to do the equivalent of that before 2009, with
the update-notifier panel applet. We replaced that with the Software
Updater alert. But even if it was still a good idea to highlight a menu
bar element when updates were available, the session menu wouldn't be
the appropriate menu to use; it contains nothing about updates.

(This is a drawback of referring to the menus as "indicators". In many
cases they do indicate things, but not all. That seems incomplete given
their name, but it's fine for a user who never sees that term.)

** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180860

Title:
  Session (gear) indicator not changing to red when restart required

Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I just installed a set of updates, which included the kernel. After
  the updates were installed, update-manager showed me the dialog
  stating that a restart was required, but the session indicator did not
  change at all. It was not red, and there is not "restart required"
  type of item in the menu. It used to always do this, and no longer
  does.

  Also, the kernel updates were listed in update-manager as "security"
  updates, but the session indicator had not turned red to indicate they
  needed to be installed. I thought it was supposed to turn red and add
  an "Updates required" menu item in such a situation, as well.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: indicator-session 12.10.5daily13.03.08-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu May 16 11:18:46 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-21 (206 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: indicator-session
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-24 (142 days ago)

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