[Bug 1090349] Re: update manager forces you to restart

[sampo555]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1033226 ***
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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1033226
   No close option, only restart

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Title:
  update manager forces you to restart

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently after installing some kernel updates, update manager lets you know that you need to restart by:
  1. indicator-session power-cog turns red (and when opening, strangely Online Accounts is red .... #1077015)
  2. Adds a restart required indicator (I guess this is coming from update-notifier)
  3. Displays a non-closeable dialog with only a Restart button

  I did like the previous way of turning the power-cod red and
  displaying the "Restart required" item (now as the Restart has been
  added to the indicator-session, simply restart should be shown in red)

  However the dialog seems overly unobtrusive, as I (as a user) have three possible actions: 
  a. ignore the dialog - this will result in hiding some detail of the application I am running, let's say this is out of the question
  b. click restart - maybe if i choose a. until I close all my applications and save everything, this would be OK, but if I click away from the dialog, I anyway have to click it again, thus I could also click the indicator-session to restart or the restart required indicator from update-notifier
  c. minimize the dialog: not very useful, as after maximizing it again, I have to make the same decision again, and if I don't want to choose c again, I have to either choose a or b, but both of them have already been discussed: if I choose to maximize update-manager again and click restart after, I did the same number of clicks as I would have done with any of the two other methods available to restart the computer, only that I had to do a bit more mouse motion (go to launcher, click update-manager, go to the window - probably centered - and click the restart button)

  Another problem is that I might want to shut down instead of restart
  (I want to start my updated PC only tomorrow in the morning), but I
  can't really do that.

  So I suggest:
  1. either make the update-manager restart required dialog closeable
  2. or add a restart later button

  I think that the updates requiring a restart only take effect after a
  restart, but that does not mean that I should be forced to restart
  now, if I accept the consequences that some software might not be
  working in it's fully updated status.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.174.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 589b7562703a9b18f8c7bdabc7186c59
  CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
  Date: Fri Dec 14 14:57:27 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-21 (389 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-26 (49 days ago)

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