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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 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.

> 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

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