On 30 July 2010 18:26, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 30/07/10 16:44, Luke Benstead wrote:
> The red indicator has been a bug bear of mine for a while, red is far
> to severe a colour for something that isn't an error condition. I'd
> again suggest blue for information, or at most an amber to indicate a
> warning (I guess it's possible a kernel update had a security fix).
The strong likelihood is that you are insecure until you reboot, so we
class it as a warning and make it red.
OK, fair enough :)
> Also, "Restart required" isn't an action, and it's not required.
> "Restart (recommended)" might make more sense, brackets
> differentiating the action from the recommendation.
Agreed, the language is bad. The current plan is to change it to
"Restart, completing updates..." which is more accurate. Still open to a
better choice of words if you have something in mind.
Mark
"Restart, completing updates..." seems to indicate something is in progress. In fact it may *deter* people from restarting as they may see "completing updates..." as a warning that that is happening in the background. I think differentiating from the "Restart" action is important (as the action doesn't change, we are just adding additional information). So perhaps "Restart (to complete updates)" or my previous suggestion: "Restart (recommended)"
Luke.