Ubuntu
update-notifier package

previous notify icon was better

Bug #46988 reported by Sebastien Bacher
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human-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Artwork Team
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The new update-notifier got a new icon, what is the icon supposed to represent? The previous icon with an arrow was somewhat better for an update, any reason to change it?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

opening an ubuntu-artwork since mvo probably didn't decide about the icon change and artwork people are not subscribed to the ubuntu-artwork package

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Tim Butler (timbutler) wrote : Icon Comparison

I'm personally more in favour for the newer one, the old arrow seemed to indicate a reboot required. Here's the two to easily compare anyway.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 46988] previous notify icon was better

Useless /me too post

Seriously, guys. Better fix broken things like the horrible gtk-apply
icon then replacing perfectly good icons.

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Andy Lawrence (amlawrence) wrote :

I like the new one better. It looks more consistent with the rest of the theme than the old one

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hackel (hackel) wrote :

Launchpad doesn't seem to have voting ability like Bugzilla, so I will simply add my own /me too post.

I didn't understand why the icon changed, the other one was clear and looked rather good. The new one is ambiguous at best, you -have- to hover over it to have any clue what it's talking about. I knew what the first one meant right away. Having to reboot should happen rarely enough in LTS (if ever?) that I don't think it's worth distinguishing them with a bad icon. Why not make the current update icon into the "reboot" icon, and use the old update icon for, well, updates? To me, this actually looks more like a "power" icon. Just an idea...

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Update-notifier uses the the icon-theme now and each of the icons can be overwritten easily with themes. I close the bug for update-notifier therefore.

Changed in update-notifier:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

If somebody has a better design for that...

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
assignee: nobody → ubuntu-art
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Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote :

Lacking overall design pattern for Ubuntu.

Until we have one, I would close all bugs with words like "better" in them.

"By design".

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Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote :

Is this still relevant?

Can we close this bug with the 'by design' keyword?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Closing the bug.

Changed in human-icon-theme:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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