Thanks for the reply, Matthew. 1) closing and opening the lid to cause sleep is unrelated to this matter. Regardless of Suspend use, if a user intends to shutdown/restart the computer, the power-cog is where the GUI user is going to go. If a user never shuts down or restarts unless explicitly prompted, that does NOT change the fact that the power-cog is the GUI area where this is accomplished. It is not meaningless to them to "futz" with the cog icon. It makes perfect sense as this is the location that restart/shutdown is accomplished.
2) it is a poor design decision to use popups to communicate that a restart is needed. It is not done in the normal Ubuntu method of communicating information (i.e., displaying a rectangular box in the upper right corner of the screen). Instead the popup is reminiscent of popups from the world wide web. Something few people appreciate. And if the popup box is closed (whether on purpose or by mistake), where does the user have to go to restart? The cog icon. Both my parents did not understand that the popup icon demanding restart was from Ubuntu. Both my parents did (intuitively) understand however that the red cog icon was a communication from Ubuntu telling them something. And when they clicked the red icon they saw in red lettering what was needed from them. MUCH BETTER DESIGN. Canonical/Ubuntu is overall very good at design choices. But this popup choice for restart is a regression. Hopefully you guys can/will reconsider it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346355 Title: 14.04 power-cog does not turn red when restart is needed Status in The Session Menu: Invalid Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: In ubuntu 12.04 the power-cog turned red when a reboot/restart was needed. This was a helpful feature because it informed users that they needed to restart the computer. But this helpful indicator is gone in 14.04 and it has resulted in me never remembering to restart my computer because there is no helpful feedback from ubuntu that a restart is needed. In 14.04, I will perform an update and a popup tells me a Restart is needed but I usually select to restart-later because I am in the middle of working. By the the time I am done working I have forgotten that a restart is needed. Later when I am working again a popup occurs informing me that a restart is needed (but again I am in the middle of working so I don't restart). Bottom line: when the power-cog turned red, it reminded me that I needed to restart the computer. When I finished my work I look up and see the red power-cog and "Oh yeah, I need to restart. Now is a good time." In 14.04 this doesn't happen. Instead I'm perpetually bugged by a popup (which is useless because it's never a good time to restart when it pops up). The red power-cog was a much BETTER design choice. The removal of the power-cog turning red has negatively affected the management of ubuntu updates and it should be fixed so that it behaves like 12.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/1346355/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
