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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.