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[Vishnoo <vish@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 18:26 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth 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.
> 
> > 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.


I've tried to look for gnome-menu items with commas or explanation words
within brackets but have not noticed any.

Usually where text needs to be an explanation , menu item tends to be
longer. [ex: evolution, "Download Messages for Offline Usage" . really
shouldnt be citing evo as an example, but it had the longest I could
find ;)]

How about :
"Restart To Apply Updates..." or 
"Restart and Apply Updates..."

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Cheers,
Vish