[Bug 433220] Re: New Restart Required alert doesn't follow GNOME HIG

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Luca, thanks for this detailed report. In Ubuntu 12.10 and later, this
is partly fixed, partly Invalid. In order:

* The Gnome HIG is incomplete in its discussion of alert titles. An
alert shouldn't have a title *if it has a parent*. But if it doesn't, it
needs a title to be properly accessible in the window switcher, and that
trumps the slowness of competing with the primary text.

* The alert in 12.10 and later has primary text.

* Using the stock warning icon is less common than it used to be. It
would make sense if the alert was appearing as an immediate result of
choosing to update. But it is not; it may be appearing many minutes
later. And again, it has no parent. So using the Software Updater icon
instead helps you to identify why it is appearing.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Terry (mterry)

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Title:
  New Restart Required alert doesn't follow GNOME HIG

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  Following GNOME HIG, as Ubuntu software for GNOME should do, the
  "Restart Required" is an alert.

  Alerts are described here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-
  book/stable/windows-alert.html.en

  The current alert (attached as screenshots) lacks the following:
   * "Alert windows have no titles, as the title would usually unnecessarily duplicate the alert's primary text": current alert has a title
   * "The primary text provides the user with a one sentence summary of the information or suggested action [...] Every alert has primary text, displayed in a bold font slightly larger than the default.": there is no primary text in this alert.
   * "A confirmation alert uses the stock warning icon."

  Plus, but not directly related to HIG, buttons don't follow the "no
  show icons" default in GNOME 2.28

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Sep 19 21:22:14 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: update-notifier 0.88
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

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