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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 July 2010 16:31, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hello there ;)
>
> is anybody working on the FUSA currently?
> Allow me to raise the topic for brief elaboration..
>
> "Restart Required" seems incorrect to me:
> after executing a partial upgrade, Ubuntu shows two red elements in the
> indicator area of my top panel
> * dysfunctional conman
> * FUSA in alert condition
>
> first of all, "restart required" is not an action, it is an informative
> sentence, therefore it doesn't belong into any menu as an interactive menu
> item.
> One could instead place it above the FUSA as it is opened on click via its
> indicator icon in the panel.
>
> Furthermore, the red color on the indicator-session icon calls ERROR or
> network-failure to mind, this is not correct in this case. We are not
> failing anything, there also is no error, so red is incorrect in this
> situation.
> Perhaps yellow or orange, maybe blue. The fact of colorization alone should
> be informative enough for the user to notice timely. A hover in that screen
> corner should also reveal the suggested action: "upgrade complete, please
> restart the computer".
>
> The menu item should not change IMO, it should still be called "Restart".
>
>
+1

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).

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.

Luke.